Inside/Out

Inside/Out

The townhall wants a new theater directly connected to the existing culture house. The planned higway complicates this. Placing the theater east of the highway as a solitarian building with view over the sea would be desirable. an icon ending the city. placing the theater west of the highway will make it possible to connect the building to the existing culture house and make the buildings contact to the rest of the city more obvious, but views and contact to the sea would be obstructed by the highway.

by pulling in the sea to the building and making a landfill to the east of the bridge we create a green cultural peninsula, an endpoint worthy of the placement of the most important cultural institution of the city. The higway becomes a bridge passing through the cultural peninsula instead of being the endpoint of the city.

This creates a situation with no apparent backside which you would need in order to configure a theater in a traditional way. As opposed to the traditional theater program which has a front and a backside we propose to place the closed service in the heart of the building easing acces to all extrovert functions of the house and minimizing backsides. The foyer is wraped around the rest of the program and connected to the existing culturehouse.