Client - Clare Valley Arts Trust
Location: Clare Valley, South Australia. Roaming. (Expected Completion 2021)
Project Team - Mirai Morita, Paul Bartsch, Izrin Zahidi, Hartley Town
An Atypical Elizabethan Theatre
Clare Valley Theatre is an atypical interpretation of the Elizabethan 'Globe Theatre' typology. The proposal is non-powered, open air, and naturally lit to maintain authenticity to its Shakespearean genealogy, meaning the structure must be un-powered and naturally lit.
Clare Valley Theatre is an atypical interpretation of the Elizabethan 'Globe Theatre' typology. The proposal is non-powered, open air, and naturally lit to maintain authenticity to its Shakespearean genealogy, meaning the structure must be un-powered and naturally lit.
The theatre maintains all key aspects from its typology, meaning that it has; the heavens, hell, the pit, the galleries, Herculean columns and surprisingly 8 sides. The client also requested that this project embody the Clare Valley, as well as completely temporary and transportable.
Section showing relationship between Balcony/Gallery/Pit/Stage.
Plan 1 - Pit/Stage/Lower Gallery/Balcony
Plan 2 - Upper Gallery/Heavens/Balcony
The form is the result of continual geometrical testing, and by happy accident it happened to have 8 sides (typical of the octagonal globe theatre typology) yet without the connotations and geometric restrictions imposed by the typical octagon. The offset and rotation of a base square permitted a playfully rigid approach to the schema, allowing for us to emphasise structure whilst creating more dynamic spaces with the galleries, stage and balconies. Each element within the grid relates to each other, the grid to the circulation, the circulation to the pit, the stage to the galleries, the galleries to the balcony, and ultimately the balconies to the view.
