Shanghai Grand Theater Ground Floor Lobby Refurbishment

The entrance hall at Shanghai Grand Theater was lacking a coherent narrative to lead the user experience. In the design procedure, we took on ‘sense of theatrical’ as the main concept, to let the audience immersed in the atmosphere immediately after entering grand theater. The form of the light echoes the curved form of the architecture, the dramatic visual impact generated through the extreme contrast of black and white, light and dark. The arc-shaped ceiling light box corresponds to the white terrazzo floor of same shape, inserted into the original dark gray passage, and the dim route circles in the space, as if looking through bright show window from an alley.