THE CHERRY ORCHARD
The new façade we are proposing, encircles dynamically the building by oblique path. As if running away, it unfolds and projects towards the
garden space.
In the garden, which is to be considered just a sketch, the natural element that is the cherries trees, juxtaposes the artificial sharp drawing, deliberately anti-naturalistic.
The cutting of the Cherry garden in Checov’s Drama represents the passage of the Nation to a new historical era. By rebuilding it we want to express, through the vital symbol of blooming cherries in spring, the thaw and the new cultural changes in act.
Building, town planning and landscaping aim to become one, the separation boundaries not being defined. These elements acquire values, scale and different meanings according to the different points of view offered by architecture or by urban landscape.
As we wanted the theatre to step down from its rhetorical position we have eliminated the giant staircase having chosen to connect, by means of sloped planes, the raised floor with the garden. The effect of continuity between the building and the garden is strengthened by the cherry trees set on the slope to join the entrance level.
The “Brazilian and Chinese additions” could be considered as a deriding attack against its lordly separation. The daily trash aggressiveness tells us about the necessity for this building to renounce its symbolic and monumental features and to become more ductile and permeable.
The space continuity is strengthened by developing new functional spaces on the street level. Minor scale building, such as cultural services or shops, in addition to the restaurant housed in the base, could be more easily connected with the garden and the street, by gradually modulating towards the big scale of the moving theatre.