Year 4 | Tectonics
Storytelling | A regeneration of the area is proposed to gradually establish a new community whilst retaining the existing community. The story encompasses ideas of contingency as the plans are implemented in fragments. The imagined development of this historically industrial area is informal, bohemian. The main pedestrian routes and informal markets are the immediate context for the proposed theatre.
Theatre | Routes through the public square form the building footprint. The foyer becomes a public plaza with fragmented built forms sitting within it. The transparency of the materiality allows glimpses of the hidden world of the theatre, while the solid auditorium is a visible anchor from which the rest of the building pins outwards. The materiality expresses the importance of the spoken word and text in theatre. Stone and glass are etched with letters, words and phrases to illustrate what they contain within. The glass is etched with moments of clear glass allowing brief flickers of the hidden theatrical world.
