VELVET PERFORMANCE DISTRICT: Velvet Performance: Nutcracker / Salzburg Marionette Theater

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Velvet Performance: Nutcracker / Salzburg Marionette Theater

Salzburg Marionette Theatre was established in 1913 and is one of the oldest continuing marionette theatres in the world. Performs a large repertoire of operas, ballets and productions for children, using marionettes.

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VELVET PERFORMANCE HUB OF PRAGUE

Despite its transformation into a shopping district and economic hub, Narodni Trida lacks an architectural symbol that projects its culture and cosmopolitan identity. Most of its existing 'monuments' refer to a communist past and become anachronistic when confronted by the 21st century energy and diversity of this Europe.

The overarching aim for this programmatic hybrid is to redefine the existing and historic typology so that it responds to a twenty-first century city location. The site needs to create a buffer zone between the Old and New Town Town of Prague. The intention is that the Cultural Centre would form part of the urban fabric, offering possibilities for public inhabitation to establish a performance hub for the City.

The complex arrangement of accommodation, market spaces, workshops, studios and performance spaces create an interesting and challenging juxtaposition between the roughness of industry and the delicacy of art. Celebrating it’s connection and fragile relationship with the landscape through seasonal performance festivals and events.

Communities evolve slowly, from a strong social base. Architects can contribute to their success, but only in conjunction with others: by taking account of local, social and historical context; and by engaging collaboratively with people to create the physical conditions in which they can function and thrive.

Programmatic instability = Programmatic Performance each the potential beginning of a triumphal march towards a new kind of city, a new urbanity.

Performance rules are defined through a library of hybrid details which outline the system, the rules of ‘the performance’, but do not completely define the output of this creative process. The resultant performance is then placed around the site in specific microlots. As the artistic community becomes more developed and experienced, the architecture produced becomes improved and updated.

The architectural intervention constitutes an undulating landscape which animates the interior of the building and the landscape offering a highly versatile stage for all kinds of events, including exhibitions, art fairs, stage performances, and vocational training. The intervention illustrates a direct relationship between the past and the present; the content of history, shown in the first floor, informs the floor above which houses today's Czech community of performers.

Through this highly skilled creative and evolutionary process, a new identity is created for Narondi trida and Prague. The lives of the inhabitants are enriched with their creative potential achieved.