On a slope of the Yanshan Mountains in northern China, at one end of the east-west axis that crosses Beijing, the theater rises as a material symbol of the contrast between the sinuous natural landscape and the vast open urban setting of the city.

The ‘penetrations’ done on the terrain – executed along the axis to fit the building onto the site – simultaneously resolve the spatial functionality of the theater and the visual connection between both directions, east and west, on a human scale...[+]