The design for The Star celebrates the rich and diverse happenings inside the building with a multi-faceted, permeable and dynamic design, blurring the boundaries between public and private realms as well as retail and cultural components. The 62,000-square-metre development comprises The Star Vista with food-and-beverage-based retail facilities, and The Star Performing Arts Centre with a 5,000-seat theatre. The south elevation is completely opened up and its facilities are clearly visible from outside. One can crawl under, transverse around and climb onto the complex via a series of ramps, escalators and terraces.
The design for The Star does not present one singular expression to describe the project; instead it celebrates the rich and diverse happenings inside the building with a multi-faceted, permeable and dynamic design, blurring the boundaries between public and private realms as well as retail and cultural components.
The transitions are soft and flowing to encourage discovery and therefore make it a highly engaging and energetic attraction for the city. The 62,000-square-metre development comprises The Star Performing Arts Centre, a cultural zone owned and managed by Rock Productions Pte Ltd; and The Star Vista, a retail and entertainment zone owned and managed by CapitaLand Mall Asia Limited. The development provides a premier entertainment, lifestyle and retail experience not only for one-north but also the wider Singapore community.
The Star aims to become a vibrant civic node with a 5,000-seat cultural theater and a food-and-beverage oriented retail sector, working together to enhance each other’s viability.
The civic and public components of The Star Performing Arts Centre are paramount and outwardly expressed. The south elevation is opened up to present the inner workings of the facility as a ‘visible section’. The mass of the theatre floating above is faceted with glass fissures, and utilises custom made ribbons with acoustic render for cladding, which help dissolve and break down the mass above, playing with a composition of positive and negative readings and in balance with the lower portions of solid and void.
The theatre contains over 5,000 seats with two balconies, by far the largest venue of its kind in Singapore and is capable of staging musicals, concerts and other large scale performances. A cavity wall system prevents sound and vibrations coming in from the lobbies and external environment. The entire steel structure of the theatre is contained in a traditional ‘box within a box’ approach.
The design for the retail space responds to the challenging site topography as the zone spirals inwards to address the major entry points and culminate in an open amphitheatre. The complex allows an array of rich and varying activities to take place inside the building whilst maintaining functionality.
Faceted glass fissures dissolve big masses and create a dynamic composition of positive and negative spaces as well as a sense of balance. The south elevation is completely opened up and its facilities are clearly visible from outside. The building is an organic object opening to public discovery. One can crawl under, move through, transverse around and climb onto the complex via a series of ramps, escalators, terraces and public gardens. All circulations, movements and internal forms are soft and sinuous as if the civic activities have shaped the inside of the complex.
Soft transition occurs vertically from the public, open retail to the private, enclosed theatre. The entire sequence and transition is linked visually and spatially to the 33m high grand foyer, connecting the below-ground retail and the top glass floor of the theatre’s main lobby and exposing the volume floating above.
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