The Old Vic Backstage
The Old Vic Backstage by Haworth Tompkins demonstrates a striking urban infill intervention featuring a custom decorative screen over an active glazed cultural frontage.
- What we like about this project
- The complex floral-like kinetic or perforated screen pattern transitions in color density from top to bottom.
Materials
- metal
- glass
- steel
- neon
Visual identifiers
- petal-screen
- red-neon-signage
- infill-facade
- glazed-ground-floor
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- expressive-facade
Visual tags
- cultural
- urban-infill
- façade-screen
- evening-shot
- theatre
- Geometry
- Infill urban facade sandwiched between historic masonry buildings, featuring a multi-tiered structural screen over a glazed ground floor.
- Facade system
- Custom decorative metal petal screen mounted on structural framing over multi-story glazing.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame infill structure between existing masonry party walls.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story infill building matching the height of adjacent structures, scaled to pedestrian foot traffic at street level.
- Lighting
- Twilight ambient sky combined with warm internal lighting from the building and red neon signage, contrasted by blurred motion light trails from passing buses.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and theatrical evening atmosphere enlivened by warm illumination and motion blur.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge in London featuring historic masonry architecture neighbors and heavy pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level entrance engages directly with the busy urban sidewalk, while the intricate upper screen draws the eye upward from the street.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical infill rhythm anchored by a gridded decorative screen and punctuated by linear signage bands.
- Style reading
- Contemporary cultural architecture with historic context integration
- Program
- Theatre backstage and cultural venue
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal, glass, steel, neon
- Visual identifiers
- petal-screen, red-neon-signage, infill-facade, glazed-ground-floor
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, expressive-facade
- Visual tags
- cultural, urban-infill, façade-screen, evening-shot, theatre
- Geometry
- Infill urban facade sandwiched between historic masonry buildings, featuring a multi-tiered structural screen over a glazed ground floor.
- Facade system
- Custom decorative metal petal screen mounted on structural framing over multi-story glazing.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame infill structure between existing masonry party walls.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story infill building matching the height of adjacent structures, scaled to pedestrian foot traffic at street level.
- Lighting
- Twilight ambient sky combined with warm internal lighting from the building and red neon signage, contrasted by blurred motion light trails from passing buses.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant and theatrical evening atmosphere enlivened by warm illumination and motion blur.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge in London featuring historic masonry architecture neighbors and heavy pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
- Spatial experience
- The street-level entrance engages directly with the busy urban sidewalk, while the intricate upper screen draws the eye upward from the street.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical infill rhythm anchored by a gridded decorative screen and punctuated by linear signage bands.
- Style reading
- Contemporary cultural architecture with historic context integration
- Program
- Theatre backstage and cultural venue
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture