Night Safari Amphitheatre

The Night Safari Amphitheatre is a 1,000-seat performance venue within Mandai Wildlife Reserve, home to the park’s long-running Creatures of the Night animal presentation show since its debut in December 2003. Completed in late 2022 after just over a year of construction, the redeveloped amphitheatre was relocated to a new, fully sheltered position near the park entrance, increasing seating capacity by 30% over the previous venue and enabling the show to proceed regardless of weather conditions.

The rebuilt venue integrates an LED wall, surround sound and lighting systems, and staged water features and thematic planting into the performance space, alongside expanded back-of-house facilities designed to support the wellbeing of the programme animals when off stage. BIM modelling, BIM coordination, and ACMV works were carried out for clients Builder90 and AirSolid, resolving the new stage technology, water features, and back-of-house animal facilities against the amphitheatre’s structural shell, sheltered roof structure, and climate control requirements.

Creating a fully sheltered, climate-controlled performance venue, combining structural roofing, integrated AV systems, water features, and specialised animal-care back-of-house space, within an operating wildlife park required coordination across structural, ACMV, and AV/MEP systems to resolve the amphitheatre’s ventilation and cooling needs against its staging and animal welfare requirements, while works proceeded alongside the park’s ongoing nightly operations.