Danielle Lehmann: Looking Out Week 13

This week focuses on the Fusionopolis's Genexis Theater, a spherical theater with a light show on the exterior and wooden acoustic paneling on the interior. The theater was designed by Kisho Kurokawa in Singapore. The theater seats 400 - 500 people (all the seats are moveable depending on the type of performance and the amount of people expected) and has bowed walls within a rounded exterior, all of which is elevated five stories off the ground. The back of the theater is rounded to move with the exterior wall. On that wall there are 400,000 rounded wooden balls which have been extensively testes for their acoustic properties. This type of acoustic paneling has never been tried before, so there has been testing digitally before construction and currently after construction.