Brief: To design a theatre. 

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Client: David Glass Ensemble is an artist led international theatre company creating vibrant, relevant and powerful theatre. Since 1979 David Glass has been performing and creating across the world, then in 1990 he established the David Glass Ensemble as a pioneering physical, devised and applied theatre company. Creative learning and engagement with artists and audiences around the world is central to the company's ethos, while vivid, celebratory storytelling sits at the heart of the company's values and process. The target audience includes young students and residents living near the site who are mostly aged over 40. There are many school and universities located near the site which would allow students to access workshops or perform easily. 

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Concept: Precedented by Birkbeck centre and Otello by Es Devlin both depicts how introduction of geometric elements can make a space dynamic. Inspired from both concept is to intervene into the space with a cube (stage) which will act as a focal point and allow people to go around it and see the play/act closely. 

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Strategy & Programme: The intention is to build an element to complete this sequence of the existing addictions closing the u- shape figure introducing in the meanwhile a volume with his own formal identity: the polycarbonate second skin has the function of connecting the volumes, passing in front of them as a translucent blanket that let us guess what you have behind and propose a new global reading of the building.