Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China
Chinese firm Domani Architectural Concepts has created a recording studio inside Guangzhou Opera House, featuring an interior covered with jumbled wooden panels that contribute to its acoustic performance.
The Meilan Music Studio is located on the fourth floor of the opera house that was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and opened in 2010 on a site in Guangzhou’s central business district.
The project has been awarded a 2021 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
There is an absolute connection between the texture of the space and the users.
From a certain perspective, in such extremely high-precision use classical music performance venues, the instinct in chaos has even become a violent expression of the author’s conception with a certain degree of aggressiveness and suspicion.
The original product – experimental 6-degree chairs are chosen. During the proofing process, the designers intercept the unfinished fragments of the furniture and perform destructive treatment on the surface.
This symbolizes the questioning of the work and the impulse to destroy in the creation process, which often allows the creators to look at the starting point and orientation of any work with a more essential and pure perspective.
Organized by precise logic, the randomly established form was transferred into orderly practicality.
In other words, the disorder that has been accurately experienced is still unable to break away from the control of the order.
It is true in both music creation and space design.
Between the establishment of order and the destruction of order, it is almost a seesaw battle between creative instincts and techniques.
Project: The Violence of Chaos – Meilan Music Studio
Designers: DOMANI Architectural Co., Ltd
Manufacturer: Meilan Music Arts Centre
