work completed
1_Recycling of a church for conversion into an international infant and youth centre for theatrical research and creation
2_Complete interior renovation.
challenges
1_A full architectural program to be realized with partial building occupation
2_Transformation of a former place of worship into a centre for contemporary theatrical creation.
proposal
In order to transform this former place of worship into a contemporary centre of theatrical creation, all the while recognizing and highlighting its existing architecture, we propose to intervene more intensively in one of the building’s halves, so as to liberate and leave as is the other. Furthermore, by means of two planes of symmetry which transversely and longitudinally reflect the space at two exact locations, the experience of grandeur and luminosity is preserved by an illusion of partial spatial recomposition.
