Round Theatre

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Round Theatre

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Residential › Apartment
Commercial › Exhibition Center
Cultural › Cultural Center
Educational › Auditorium

STATUS

Concept

SIZE

500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft

Dip MA Architecture - Studio Thesis

Tutors - Timothy Smith & Jonathan Taylor - www.smithandtaylorllp.com/

The Round Theatre, sits upon Robert Adam’s Classical axis that sweeps through the “Old Town” upon the raised higher plateau of South Bridge. To the rear end of the site falls three storeys into the grotty medieval face of Cowgate deep in the belly of Edinburgh “Old Town”. The Round theatre turns its back to Cowgate and mediates with the classical proportions of South Bridge by translating brick into the Doric Order.

The selection of modular Hagmisters Bergheim brick (290x90x90mm) rhyme with the rhythm of the appearance, dimensions and texture of the rough, granular pale cream sandstone Georgian neighbours. A contrast is formed with the dank grey tones of the rubble stone medieval walls of Cowgate disassociating itself like a pure white maiden.

The Hagmister Bergheim modular bricks form the exterior skin of the load bearing walls joined together in English Bond and tied into the stack bonded Wienerberger Clay POROTON-T8-30,0-P blocks forming thick load bearing insulated walls aping the Edinburgh vernacular. Which sympathise with the load bearing nature of the Georgian, Baronial, and Medieval styles which tightly wrap around the site. This ensures that the building does not sit like an alien species but as an integrated part of the city.

Externally the Doric pilaster sits ontop of base at a proportion of 0.3 the columns height at 2.4 of its diameters. The bold ovolo a cavetto and the base mouldings incorporate a scotia over the cyma reversa absorbing them within the brickwork by corbelling them out by 100mm.

The pilaster width is generated by two headers and one stretcher tying the pilaster back into the structure of the English bond with a necking extending to give the column a width of 6 headers. The intercolumniation of the pilasters are spaced at 5 diameters (30 headers) and 1 diameter (6 headers) maintaining the classical proportions and bond strength.

The pilasters are tranlated into brick form at a proprtion of 44 bricks in height (3860mm) at 8 diameters of the column width (490mm). The darker tone of the Cardiff Mod F bricks highlight the Abacus above the necking of the pilaster corbelling out 90mm.

Above the pilaster sits the architrave corbelled out by 90mm on headers resting on the pilasters below. The Guttae is transposed into brick form by placing two rows of burnt stretcher bonded Cardiff modular bricks highlighting the underneath of the Taenia.

Tryglyph sits ontop of the corbelled headers of the Taenia placing three line of English bond which corbel out by 90mm above the pilasters. The Taenia is mediated into brick by corbelling out in headers 90mm above the lower layer.

Internally the Hagmister Bergenheim modular brick skin continues to wrap the interior walls in a classical envelope. The proportions are maintain by dropping the pilasters down to the base of the marble floor and removing the Doric base. The Hansons Hollow Core Floor intercepts the Wienberger Clay PROTON blocks at the cornice of the exterior in order to maintain the Doric Order.

As the theatre goer passes deeper and deeper into the theatre the depth of the corbelling of the architrave, frieze and cornice reduces subtly mediating the classical order.

The order is maintained by dissimilating the intercolumniation of the Doric pilasters into the weave of the tartan marble floors slabs. Mediating the orders in a pattern of Arabescato, Agegan and Berrisca Damascata marble.

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