La Lira Theater Public Open Space, In collaboration with J. Puigcorbé
Ripoll, Girona, Spain · 2011
Photo · Photo by Hisao Suzuki
A monumental covered public plaza precedent utilizing weathering steel slats to filter daylight and frame views of the surrounding historic town and landscape.
- What we like about this project
- Climbing green ivy growing directly on the dark steel plates, softening the industrial materiality.
Materials
- corten-steel
- weathering-steel
- stone-paving
- glass
Visual identifiers
- corten-steel-canopy
- slatted-roof
- framed-view
- covered-plaza
- weathering-steel
Style tags
- minimalist
- tectonic
- industrial-chic
- contextualist
Visual tags
- monumental-scale
- urban-void
- filtered-light
- civic-space
- material-honesty
- landscape-framing
- Geometry
- A massive, rectilinear portal frame with a high-altitude slatted canopy roof. The side walls are composed of vertical steel slats and solid plates, creating a deep, open-ended box that frames the landscape.
- Facade system
- Rain-screen style vertical weathering steel slats and solid plates.
- Structural guess
- Steel portal frame with integrated tension ties and cantilevered slatted roof panels.
- Spatial scale
- Grand, monumental scale with a triple-height clearance that dwarfs the human scale, functioning as a covered civic plaza.
- Lighting
- Dappled, filtered daylight penetrates the slatted overhead canopy, contrasting with the bright, direct natural light of the open landscape beyond.
- Atmosphere
- A solemn, shaded, and dramatic threshold that acts as a giant lens for the natural landscape.
- Environmental context
- An urban void or covered public square bridging a river, looking out toward a historic European town fabric and mountains.
- Spatial experience
- The space transitions from a dark, highly compressed, and shaded interior void to a bright, framed view of the river, historic town, and distant mountains.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong vertical rhythm in the wall slats balanced by the horizontal lines of the overhead canopy and the distant horizon.
- Style reading
- Materialist minimalism with a focus on tectonic weight and landscape framing
- Program
- Public plaza and covered theater foyer
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- corten-steel, weathering-steel, stone-paving, glass
- Visual identifiers
- corten-steel-canopy, slatted-roof, framed-view, covered-plaza, weathering-steel
- Style tags
- minimalist, tectonic, industrial-chic, contextualist
- Visual tags
- monumental-scale, urban-void, filtered-light, civic-space, material-honesty, landscape-framing
- Geometry
- A massive, rectilinear portal frame with a high-altitude slatted canopy roof. The side walls are composed of vertical steel slats and solid plates, creating a deep, open-ended box that frames the landscape.
- Facade system
- Rain-screen style vertical weathering steel slats and solid plates.
- Structural guess
- Steel portal frame with integrated tension ties and cantilevered slatted roof panels.
- Spatial scale
- Grand, monumental scale with a triple-height clearance that dwarfs the human scale, functioning as a covered civic plaza.
- Lighting
- Dappled, filtered daylight penetrates the slatted overhead canopy, contrasting with the bright, direct natural light of the open landscape beyond.
- Atmosphere
- A solemn, shaded, and dramatic threshold that acts as a giant lens for the natural landscape.
- Environmental context
- An urban void or covered public square bridging a river, looking out toward a historic European town fabric and mountains.
- Spatial experience
- The space transitions from a dark, highly compressed, and shaded interior void to a bright, framed view of the river, historic town, and distant mountains.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong vertical rhythm in the wall slats balanced by the horizontal lines of the overhead canopy and the distant horizon.
- Style reading
- Materialist minimalism with a focus on tectonic weight and landscape framing
- Program
- Public plaza and covered theater foyer
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture