The theater building is a fragmented object that allows the existing square meddles into it.
The theater appears frequently built as a refined bank vault served on an exquisite tray, but absent from any urban life, not really friendly, reaffirming the building as a result of conceptual compressive forces, centripetal, enclosed by airtight and elusive walls.
The proposal tries to reveal the sacredness of the theater, offering the option of opening the auditorium through transparent planes and sectioning the "factory" (the place of the show production) and letting them to be observed by the city.
These two architectural resources offer the opportunity to show the activities of the preparation and production of an event in the daily life of urban space, and allow the entry of it in the building: the city, the public and the theater embrace to create together “the best function and the best poster”.
However, for certain types of representations (opera, cinema, theater), these open views may be limited or even closed; therefore a system of acoustic side and rear curtains has been considered.
For certain representations, or when none are performed, the theater as a whole (auditorium, factory and lobby) remains visually unveiled to the city.
The system set in a straight angle reaffirms the foundational axes of the city. In turn, the two wings at right angles are not intended to be a barrier; each wing seeks a new dialogue:
- In the south wing, this dialogue will be characterized by the permeability of the "factory" and the transparency of the auditorium;
- and, on the west wing, this dialogue will be characterized by transparency and the intrusion of built objects in the lobby, which seek to assume the dominant presence of isolated buildings in the context.
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