The Theatre of Architecture | PEÑA architecture

In the Theater of Architecture many players have to come together to realize the final show piece. AFARAI, as the project architect, created a series of concepts and designs. With the collaboration of PEÑA architecture construction drawings were produced for the new theater of theater group MC in Amsterdam. The program was divers, a restaurant, offices, dressing rooms, backstage, 3 theater rooms, a sound studio and a lot of storage. For the main theater hall a floating steel structure with sliding doors was to be erected and for the dressing rooms and backstage another steels structure. The concept was to create a certain transparency about what goes on behind the scenes in a theater. It was also important to design the flexibility to use the spaces for other type of events into it. The main theater hall was no black box; it got his character from strong graphic prints custom-made. As is the reality of an architect at times, after 2 years of hard work the design was abandoned and was never built.