Vase House Dance Studio, Haidian District Interior, Chinese Interior Architecture, Images
Vase House Dance Studio in Haidian District
Performance Art Facility, Beijing, China – design by archIStry design&research office
10 Dec 2019
Vase House
Interior Design: aarchIStry design&research office
Location: Beijing, China

Vase House is a dance studio. We hope it’s a place to teach and practice dancing, and an indoor “structure” that everyone could use, experience and get involved in through their body movements. Participants are encouraged to engage in body interaction. Hence, it is designed to be very soft with a small area. The notion of the circle is always implemented in the logic of the overall design. Through the combination of this basic shape, it naturally derives rooms with different functions, like lobby, dressing room, practice room, classroom, corridor, etc.
In order not to waste the area, the corridor and the leisure room are combined for mutual consideration, which brings about a more important function, that is, imitating the VIP private room in the classical theater with seats, short supporting walls, and windows. Multiple semicircles are connected in series on the plane to form a private corridor, which is convenient for “spectators” to sit in to have a rest, wait, and watch the “performance” in the dance studio at the same time.

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