Kaaitheater
In 2017, the Kaaitheater in Brussels was preparing for a new take on its infrastructure. The functional difficulties with the dated buildings, the renewal of its lease contract and the dynamic of change in its direct urban context were approached as an opportunity to rethink infrastructure and institution alike. We elaborated a potential scan, based on a process of exchange with different users. Two design scenarios were developed in spatial and financial terms to research and evaluate alternative directions for the future. Through the scenarios, we investigated different degrees of intervention on existing buildings, technical infrastructure, and logistics. We also revealed different ways how the internal organization could match with the urban integration in the canal zone in general, and more specifically as part of an urban block mutating into a major future cultural center. The scenarios operated in a back and forth between pragmatic considerations and reflections on the role of the theater in facilitating contemporary artistic practice, in link to its context.
The study was later annexed to the competition brief for an architectural competition.
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Location
Brussels, Belgium
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Client
Kaaitheater/Facilitair Bedrijf
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Competition
2017
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In collaboration with
GHARP, INGENIUM
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51N4E project team
Freek Persyn, Sotiria Kornaropoulou, Janik Beckers, Alice Babini, Dieter Leyssen
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51N4E involvement
Feasibility study
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Construction costs
€ 17'500'000
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Programme
extension and refurbishment of a cultural infrastructure, black box, artist's studios, public space, cafè, theater facilities, office space
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Built surface
12.000m²
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Image credits
51N4E
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