status: design

seats: 1,060

building area: ground floor - 1,800 sm; first floor, auditorium - 630 sm; first floor, offices - 95 sm; second floor, practice studio - 580 sm; second floor, offices 95 sm; total - 3,200 sm

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.”
― Plato

TRIFLORA AUDITORIUM

Music and the arts must form the heart of our lives and communities, for they are the food of love, and the keys to learning.

The ambition for the design of this auditorium was to make an intimate and open space for the enjoyment of the performing arts. There are different approaches to staging the arts which have varying outcomes. For example, a proscenium is a threshold which separates the house from the stage; it delineates the difference between our mundane lives and the spectacle that is unfolding and helps us to suspend our disbelief. A black box and a thrust stage, on the other hand, don’t have prosceniums and our experience is more immersive.

The Triflora Auditorium will become the home for a broad range of creative and intellectual activities in the newly built urban community. A local dance and performance company and school will occupy the heart of the facility’s programming and space. Additionally, the building will be used several times a week all year round to host special events relating to the performance arts, technology lectures and symposia, educational events, conferences, and business gatherings.

design response

The Auditorium is designed to be a simple three story box, within which floats a flower shaped main performance hall. The generous lobby and bar sits below the auditorium along with four large practice and art studio spaces on the ground floor. Forming the north facade are two stories of office and support rooms. On the roof of the floating flower auditorium and just below the articulated roof is an additional large performance / practice studio.