Milan, second year master Design Laboratory
Professor: Maria Grazia Folli
2017
Professor: Maria Grazia Folli
2017
The project wants to give an answer to the request of Teatro alla Scala to have a new headquarters for its laboratories. The expo area is the best place to bring the 75k m2 of warehouses and laboratories and to have the best planning for the Accademia.
This technological hub will be implemented with an experimental Theatre for the students where they can make their performances in a modern and cozy environment.
Exp Theatre wants to be a performance place that shall never say no and can become a cultural hub for theatre companies all around the world. For this reason we design three different theatre rooms that can meet the most diverse artistic needs and capacity of viewers.
The project is developed as a hypogeum space, that can be guessed but not knowing immediately. Two polycarbonate volume host the theatre; they hide, like a photographic image, an idea of interiority but does not make it immediately available. This depth is to be looked for as the sense that evokes but does not reveal, which contains and does not directly convey. The volume of the theatre itself wants to be the core of the space, and the other functions work as a cornice to exalt the centre of the scene.
The viewers proceed from the entrance to the theatral show in a route that goes through different space situation, from wide double height spaces to small cavities in the ground.
In a lower level there is the direct connection with the nearby laboratories, in order to bring the scenography directly on the scenes, and all the functions to support the preparation of the shows. The structure of the volumes works with the theatre core that support cantilever trusses that allow to have all the free space around the theatre.
This technological hub will be implemented with an experimental Theatre for the students where they can make their performances in a modern and cozy environment.
Exp Theatre wants to be a performance place that shall never say no and can become a cultural hub for theatre companies all around the world. For this reason we design three different theatre rooms that can meet the most diverse artistic needs and capacity of viewers.
The project is developed as a hypogeum space, that can be guessed but not knowing immediately. Two polycarbonate volume host the theatre; they hide, like a photographic image, an idea of interiority but does not make it immediately available. This depth is to be looked for as the sense that evokes but does not reveal, which contains and does not directly convey. The volume of the theatre itself wants to be the core of the space, and the other functions work as a cornice to exalt the centre of the scene.
The viewers proceed from the entrance to the theatral show in a route that goes through different space situation, from wide double height spaces to small cavities in the ground.
In a lower level there is the direct connection with the nearby laboratories, in order to bring the scenography directly on the scenes, and all the functions to support the preparation of the shows. The structure of the volumes works with the theatre core that support cantilever trusses that allow to have all the free space around the theatre.
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