Phoenix Valley

The project at Phoenix Valley is a government funded and operated Theatre, Film and Arts Centre. Run as an invited design competition in late 2009, the brief proposed strict zoning for the site which directed all designers to divert an axial canal in a blunt right hand turn across the front of
a basic rectangular building footprint, and left open the option of a square to the front or the side. studio505’s winning scheme broke this zoning and instead proposed that the canal was drawn into the site, becoming the active element that has carved out the valley from a green roofed mountain mass. This gesture created a protected internal courtyard space, an internalised yet outdoor central gathering space secure from busy roads, allowing a public space, connection to a public screen and access to all the parts of the centre from within the valley.

Comprising a series of independently operated, but integrated programmes of 4 cinemas; a 1000 seat grand theatre capable of both traditional Chinese opera and radical digital immersive performances; a five storey flexible art gallery; a youth palace(learning centre) to educate up to 4000 students; an occupation experience hall, a sports and dance hall; a selection of retail, café
and food facilities and a connected and permeable children’s playground, landscaped courtyard and large format LED screen.

This broad and complementary mix of programme has been carefully tailored, folded, inserted, and moulded into the form of the building through a process of occupation, of inhabitation, carving out and claiming of regions, colonising of niches, of caves and hollows excavated
from within the simple, powerful geological form of the overall complex.

凤凰谷
正在建设中的凤凰谷位于常州市武进区，将成为当地最新的
文化标志建筑与活动中心。项目包括可容纳1000人的武进大剧院，综合电影院，运动场，以及容纳4000名学生的青年教育中心。另外包括艺术展览馆，零售中心，公共广场中设有水景观，大屏幕与儿童游乐场。建筑屋顶种植覆盖绿色植被，并配有太阳能板，意图达到中国最高环保指标。此项目目前正在建设中。

室内设计
在凤凰谷项目的室内设计工程中，主要空间被设想成为由不同领域组合而成的空间-一个可以由使用者自由支配的空间。在共同的设计主题下允许不同的领域存在多样性，各种功能特性并维持建筑的简洁特质。