CITY THEATRE

A Theatre Created On The Theme Of Urban Renewal

PROJECT: Theatre design

2019 LOCATION:

Hangzhou, China

YEAR: 06

The site is located in Fengshan new village, Hangzhou City, China. Under the soil of this small village, it is the imperial city of the Southern Song Dynasty which had a prosperous market thousands of years ago. Through the alternation of dynasties, generation after generation of people live in, until today's society. Today, this village has long been unable to see the prosperity of thousands of years ago. It has become the place where the poorest people live in Hangzhou, and is regarded as "village in the city".

The form "cloud" represents the expand of local residents' living spaces. Just as the clouds squeezing each other, the residents are constantly taking the public spaces as their won space, leading to the current situation that the public streets are occupied by residents.

This show is the last chapter of an immersive theatre which contains 7 chapters in total. I collected the images of audiences and projected them on the "cloud", emphasizing a combination between the past and present.

The Up and Down position of the curtain stand for different meaning of the urban gesture. When the curtain is lifted, a void space is created, allowing audiences to move in. When the curtains hang down, the room below is occupied, requiring audiences squeeze themselves into those "cloud", which can lead to the feeling of moving in between the gaps.