Kunshan Culture and Art Center

Kunshan, China

Project start: 05/2009
Completion:

10/2014

Project type: New building
Venue type:

Opera house, Multifunctional hall, Arts centre, Concert hall

Seats:

Grand Theatre: 1400 seats
Multi-function Theatre: 270 seats

Our services:

Schematic design, design development, construction design, tender documents and construction supervision for stage machinery, stage lighting and electro acoustic and video system

Contact:

Architect: China Architecture Design & Research Group

Client: Kunshan Culture and Art Center Development Co., Ltd.

 

 

Grand Theatre (1400 seats):

Equipment of the overstage machinery system:

  • 53 fly bars, payload: 750 kg, speed= 1.5 m/s, load suspension bar length: 24.0m
  • 2 lateral fly bars
  • 12 point hoists, payload: 500 kg, speed= 1.5 m/s
  • 4 rows with lighting bars, each row consist of 3 independent movable lighting frames with 10.0 m and 5.0 m length
  • 12 side lighting ladders, vertical and horizontal movable
  • 2 proscenium lighting towers and proscenium lighting bridge
  • House curtain (Greek (traveller) and German (guillotine) opening style)
  • Proscenium flies
  • 2 mobile curtain tracks for mounting on load suspension bars
  • Apron stage flies (point hoists and fly bars)
  • Backstage flies, payload 500kg, speed= 0.5 m/s, load suspension bar length: 18.0m
  • Side stage assembly cranes

Equipment of the understage machinery system:

  • 2 orchestra lifts (designed for use during performances)
  • Seating wagon orchestra lifts
  • Movable orchestra railing
  • 6 double-deck stage platforms with dimensions 18.0m x 3.0m
  • 12 side stage wagons with dimensions 18.0m x 3.0m
  • Different compensating platforms
  • Backstage wagon with turntable and outer ring
  • Trap lifts
  • Transportation lift (within the stage area)
  • Conference seating wagon
  • Loading platforms for loading bay area

Safety-related equipment

  • Proscenium safety curtain

Further parts of the work scope:

  • Complete electric and electronic layout of the centralized control system including main and secondary control consoles for all drives of the stage machinery equipment
  • Complete steel structure (including grid level, level of pulleys as well as all technical galleries and levels)
  • Several stage curtains and projection screens

 

  • 2 digital lighting consoles with 4096 DMX channels each (Main console and back-up console)
  • Notebook for remote control and maintenance of dimmer system, network nodes and multifunctional devices
  • 3 radio remotes for the lighting control system
  • 2 secondary consoles as touch screen panels for the secondary functions control, such as control of work lighting and rehearsal lighting, control of the direct power connections, control of the main power switches
  • Digital dimmer system equipped with 858 x 3kW and 185 x 5kW dimmer circuits as well as 282 x 16A and 82 x 25A relay circuits.
  • Complete power and data distributions
  • DMX 512 and Ethernet network including data splitters, data boosters and protocol converters
  • Complete installation including 212 connection boxes
  • Complete spotlight equipment comprising of lighting fixtures with conventional lenses, profile spotlights, floodlights, as well as color changers, multifunctional lighting devices and effect devices, follow spots, etc.
  • Digital audio routing system, linked by fibre optic network, 168 x 216 analogue and digital in- and outputs,
    including integrated DSP for loudspeaker management, stage monitoring etc.
  • Time saving and safe, reproducible routing without complicated manual patching
  • Patchbays for all audio connections
  • Digital mixing consoles with approx. 100 audio channels and consoles with 40 and 32 channel strips;
    integrated to the digital audio matrix
  • Connections for mobile use of mixing consoles
  • Complete 19” distribution cabinets in central switching room (stage), amp room and sound control room,
    powered by uninterruptable power supplies
  • Event player for replay of simultaneous multichannel audio and HDTV video tracks
  • Multichannel reverberation and effects system
  • Mobile side rack for recorders, player and effect devices
  • Multichannel wireless microphone and in-ear monitoring systems
  • Microphone set for recording and live applications
  • Microphone winches
  • Complete speaker systems in auditorium and stage areas,
    consisting of remote controlled line arrays and self-powered speakers
  • Room acoustics system allows to vary reverberation time
  • Mobile phone jammer
  • Partly mobile PA system for rehearsal halls
  • Video system for replay and recording in HDTV 1080 standard using HD-SDI transmission
  • Digital matrix router with wide range of signal converters
  • Fix installed cameras on pan/tilt heads and connections for mobile cameras
  • Fix installed and mobile TFT/LED monitors
  • High resolution beamer
  • Signal transmission via copper and fibre optic cable
  • HDTV recording and editing
  • Connection box for OB van with digital and analogue video and audio signal transmission
  • OB van linked to the internal communication system
  • Complete installation including AV connection boxes
  • Independent LAN for remote control applications
  • Stage management system, consisting of matrix based intercom with integrated party line and voice radio system, fixed and mobile intercom stations, paging system and cue light system
  • 100V amplifiers for paging and monitoring
  • Stage manager’s console with control panel for intercom, paging and cue light system, TFT monitors and touch panel for media control
  • Stage monitoring system (audio and video)
  • Surtitling system

Multi-function Theatre (270 seats):

Equipment of the overstage machinery system:

  • 8 fly bars, payload: 500kg, speed=0.5m/s, load suspension bar length: 11.0m
  • 13 point hoists, payload: 250 kg, speed=0.5m/s
  • Mobile curtain track for mounting on load suspension bars

Equipment of the understage machinery system:

  • Various stage platforms to reconfigure the hall space
  • Seating wagon system for mobile seating

Further parts of the work scope:

  • Complete electric and electronic layout and control system equipment including all main and secondary control consoles for all drives of the stage machinery equipment
  • Accessible, technical ceiling designed as steel construction
  • Several stage curtains
  • 1 digital lighting console with 2048 DMX channels
  • Notebook as remote control and back-up
  • 1 radio remote control
  • Digital dimmer system equipped with 167 x 3kW, 47 x 16A dimmer modules
  • Complete power and data distributions
  • DMX 512 and Ethernet-network
  • Complete installation including 41 connection boxes
  • Complete spotlight equipment and accessories
  • Digital audio routing system, linked by fibre optic network, 120 x 112 analogue and digital in- and outputs,
    including integrated DSP for loudspeaker management, stage monitoring etc.
  • Time saving and safe, reproducible routing without complicated manual patching
  • Patchbays for all audio connections
  • Digital mixing consoles with approx. 100 audio channels and consoles with 24 channel strips;
    integrated to the digital audio matrix
  • Connections for mobile use of mixing consoles
  • Complete 19” distribution cabinets in central switching room (stage) and sound control room,
    powered by uninterruptable power supplies
  • Event player for replay of simultaneous multichannel audio and HDTV video tracks
  • Mobile side rack for recorders, player and effect devices
  • Complete speaker systems in auditorium and stage areas, consisting of remote controlled self-powered speakers
  • Room acoustics system allows to vary reverberation time

Phase 1 Design

completed

Phase 2 Construction

completed

Phase 3 Handover

completed

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