Muuuz - Webzine Architecture & Design

L’agence suisse EM2N signe la transformation de cette salle de spectacle de Zurich. Un projet à l’esthétique industrielle et aux lignes tendues.

Sur ce projet, EM2N précise:

« In the future we will increasingly often be obliged to deal with building fabric from the 1960s and 1970s that no longer meets present-day functional and technical requirements. This specific case is a theatre building in Zürich Nord in need of refurbishment that required a further 700 seats and a larger foyer area to operate on a cost-effective basis.

These programmatic demands together with the specified budget gave us the starting point for radically transforming the existing substance into a contemporary musical theatre. By reformulating the commission it proved possible to elegantly remedy the urban deficiencies of the present building. The new building « cannibalises » existing elements such as the basement and the fly-tower in order to react in a differentiated way and using a new volume to the different scales of the urban context.

Ideally, a strong conceptual context develops between the use of a building, its architectural expression and the building costs. In this particular case the location with its proximity to the Hallenstadion / Trade Fair, the building’s function as a musical theatre and the limited budget offered optimum preconditions for formulating a coherent concept of materials. The intention is to achieve a direct, basic and industrially influenced form of expression. »

Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site de EM2N.

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