ART AND CULTURE EDUCATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE (ACERI)
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Competition, 2023
A new home for Cambodian art
Our design is more than a performing art space, it is a home for the next generation of artists, a cradle for creativity at the crossroad between tradition and modernity, between education and technique.
Rooted in the history of the Cambodian arts, this new ACERI forms part of a public park and also the byproduct of know-how and ambition to provide a tool to usher the future of Cambodia on the regional scene.
The public foyer is designed as an hybrid space, designed for hosting events and exhibit arts. It remains active when there is no show programmed in the hall.
It functions in complementarity with its surroundings promoting the notion of ecology.
The building opens up to the park rather than a decorative black box.
The performing hall is inspired by the former Preah Suramarit National Theater. The audience is of a similar size. We have retained the balcony to serve delegations but also to keep the atmosphere when the audience is smaller.
The whole back of house should serve as an education tool for students and technicians, thus we have created an innovative collaborative space: the Exchange platform. This large multifunctional space creates new potential for an otherwise traditional proscenium stage. As it opens to the stages and allows artists, technicians and students to innovate together.
Contemporary Audiovisual equipment will allow for mixed media performance and amplified shows. The mix between traditional knowledge and modern technology is a key for contemporary artistic research.
Antoine Meinnel / Bloom Architecture
Team : Antoine Meinnel, Théo Neuville, Ban Rithy, Prak Chantha, Chheng Devid
Visualization: Sea Becare