Jinyang Lake show theater overall design

The overall design of the Jinyang Lake water-show theater in Taiyuan, for client Taiyuan Guotou, treats the lake as the stage for Rumu Jin Yang, the first large-scale Chinese live-water performance themed on Jin Yang culture. Jinyang Lake itself is a 5.1-square-meter former power-plant reservoir excavated in the early People's Republic period, the largest artificial lake in North China. The performance takes water dream as its theme and uses water and fire as the core visual concepts, unfolding through the search for Jin Yang culture, the Nanlao Spring and the ancient Jin Yang city. The stage carries the largest fully underwater fountain matrix in China, measuring 182 by 82 meters. The project's formal idea is a single wave: just as new vitality splashes against the lake shore, the whole site is composed around a wave-like gesture, a simple, direct and intensifying sign that acts as a mode of communication with Jin Yang Lake and an artistic rendering of the shore condition. Rather than adopting the modernist slogan that form follows function, the design proposes that form follows no master, but emerges through interaction with spatial, physical and natural processes, and aims to create an ever-unfolding atmospheric condition. The design team was Youjing Landscape Architecture Planning and Design of Beijing.