Culture under a skylight. Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw and V+
23/06/2021.
[Deinze] Belgium
metalocus, PAULA ARIAS
metalocus, PAULA ARIAS
The cultural building constructed in collaboration by the TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V + studios is located in the city of Deinze, a municipality in the Flanders region, in the province of East Flanders, in Belgium.
During the competition phase, the collaborative studies propose an alternative project, moving the building to generate a park that extends to the River Leie. With this change, the building has a key role in defining the public space.
During the competition phase, the collaborative studies propose an alternative project, moving the building to generate a park that extends to the River Leie. With this change, the building has a key role in defining the public space.
Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+. Photograph by Stijn Bollaert
Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+. Photograph by Stijn Bollaert
Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+. Photograph by Stijn Bollaert
Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+. Photograph by Stijn Bollaert
Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+. Photograph by Stijn Bollaert
Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+. Photograph by Stijn Bollaert
Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+. Photograph by Stijn Bollaert
Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+. Photograph by Stijn Bollaert
Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+. Photograph by Stijn Bollaert
Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+. Photograph by Stijn Bollaert
Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+. Photograph by Stijn Bollaert
Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+. Photograph by Stijn Bollaert
Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+. Photograph by Stijn Bollaert
Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+. Photograph by Stijn Bollaert
Location plan. Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+
Floor plan. Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+
Section plane. Leietheater Deinze Theater by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V+
The collaborative studies, TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V + win the first prize in the competition organized by the city council of the city Deinze.
The theater has a square plan and its program is organized around a central hall, crowned with a large skylight. The hallway can be expanded by sliding the dividing wall. The program is organized around this center, designed so that public activity does not stop with the opening of the theater.
The theater tower gives the building a characteristic exterior silhouette. The brick façade is made up of glazed and matte white stones in a pattern that is laid over the volumes and, depending on the weather conditions, glows soft or bright.
The theater has a square plan and its program is organized around a central hall, crowned with a large skylight. The hallway can be expanded by sliding the dividing wall. The program is organized around this center, designed so that public activity does not stop with the opening of the theater.
The theater tower gives the building a characteristic exterior silhouette. The brick façade is made up of glazed and matte white stones in a pattern that is laid over the volumes and, depending on the weather conditions, glows soft or bright.
Description of project by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw & V +
The Leietheater ‘takes a step aside’. The building plays a key role in defining the public space and making the heritage of Deinze visible again. TRANS V+ proposed an alternative site to the client during the competition phase. This move creates a large park that extends as far as the River Leie. In addition, the theatre was placed on important sight axes and was thus made present in the city. The Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek, which had drifted into the open space of the old Leiearm, is framed and is once again the cultural heart of Deinze.
The park was designed by Marie-Josée van Hee architecten and connects the theatre along the Administrative Centre, designed by Tony Fretton architects, with the centre square on the Leiebocht. This is also where the Stedelijke Academie appears, a place where young talent is trained and possibly finds their way back to the stage in the Leietheater.
In a square floor plan, the programme components are arranged around a central foyer with a monumental skylight. The foyer can be expanded by sliding the partition wall with the multifunctional hall away. The museum is in the picture. With a café on the corner, the building activates the public domain in a place where otherwise, after the opening hours of the theatre, a pauze would arise in the urban dynamic. The large auditorium with its theatre tower gives the building a characteristic silhouette. The brick dress is made up of glazed and matt white stones in a pattern that is laid over the stack of volumes and, depending on the weather conditions, lights up softly or brightly. A silent gesture to Emiel Claus.
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Architects
Collaborators
Structure.- Ney & partners. Techniques.- studiebureau Boydens. Acoustics.- Daidalos Peutz. Theatre equipment.- Theateradvies.
Client
City of Deinze.
Area
3,500 sqm.
Budget
€ 9,250,000.
Dates
Starting year.- 2012. Completion date of the works.- August 2019.
Location
Brielstraat 8, 9800 Deinze, Belgium.
Photography
Bram Aerts y Carolien Pasmans. TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw
TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw is a Ghent (B) based practice established in 2011. In a short period of time, the office has built up a strong reputation at the forfront of a much acclaimed generation of Flemish design practices.
Major competition wins include the Royal Institute for Theater, Cinema & Sound in Brussels, the Cultural Center Ensemble in Ghent, the mixed use Dockside tower in Brussels and the Leietheater near Ghent that recently opened to the public. Together with Carmody Groarke the office was selected as the winner of the international design competition for the Design Museum Ghent.
TRANS is a group of talented and highly motivated architects and urban planners. The partners, Bram Aerts and Carolien Pasmans, are always closely involved in every project.
Bram and Carolien are committed educators at the Catholic University of Leuven, the University of Antwerp and at the Rotterdamse Academie voor Bouwkunst. They both lecture internationally on architecture and urbanism.
TRANS was shortlisted for the EU Mies van der Rohe Award 2019, laureat for the Architecture Prize Flemish Brabant 2015 and 2017, the Belgian Buildings Awards 2019, the Real Estate Awards 2019, BigMat awards 2019. In 2019 TRANS was also selected as a finalist for the Jo Crepain Awards for most innovative practice in Flanders.
The work of TRANS is published internationally. In 2018, a first monograph on the work of the practice was published by the renowned publishers nai I 010. In 2020, Borgerhoff & Lamberigts and MER Paper Kunsthalle have published ‘As a Theatre’, a book about the Leietheater in Deinze, Belgium, designed by TRANS and V+.
Major competition wins include the Royal Institute for Theater, Cinema & Sound in Brussels, the Cultural Center Ensemble in Ghent, the mixed use Dockside tower in Brussels and the Leietheater near Ghent that recently opened to the public. Together with Carmody Groarke the office was selected as the winner of the international design competition for the Design Museum Ghent.
TRANS is a group of talented and highly motivated architects and urban planners. The partners, Bram Aerts and Carolien Pasmans, are always closely involved in every project.
Bram and Carolien are committed educators at the Catholic University of Leuven, the University of Antwerp and at the Rotterdamse Academie voor Bouwkunst. They both lecture internationally on architecture and urbanism.
TRANS was shortlisted for the EU Mies van der Rohe Award 2019, laureat for the Architecture Prize Flemish Brabant 2015 and 2017, the Belgian Buildings Awards 2019, the Real Estate Awards 2019, BigMat awards 2019. In 2019 TRANS was also selected as a finalist for the Jo Crepain Awards for most innovative practice in Flanders.
The work of TRANS is published internationally. In 2018, a first monograph on the work of the practice was published by the renowned publishers nai I 010. In 2020, Borgerhoff & Lamberigts and MER Paper Kunsthalle have published ‘As a Theatre’, a book about the Leietheater in Deinze, Belgium, designed by TRANS and V+.
Jörn Aram Bihain y Thierry Decuypere. V + Architects
V + Architects was founded in the context of an investigation of a counterproposal to revalue the junction between the southern and northern stations of Brussels (1998-1999). Our name has its origin in the inaugural motto of the 1954 project "the union of the south / north towards greater well-being" because for us, with such a motto, there is still everything to do.
Principal architects.-
Jörn Aram Bihain (1973, Brussels), graduated in 1996 from the Architectuur Hogeschool Sint Lucas in Brussels, collaborated with Wolfgang Tschapeller and Henke und Schreihek in Vienna, Austria. He has been a professor of architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the ULG University (Liège) since 2007.
Thierry Decuypere (1973, Brussels), graduated in 1996 from the Institut Supérieur d'Architecture Victor Horta, worked for three years with Olivier Bastin, Escaut office in Brussels. He has taught since 2003 and has directed a master's workshop in architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the ULB (Brussels) since 2007.
Principal architects.-
Jörn Aram Bihain (1973, Brussels), graduated in 1996 from the Architectuur Hogeschool Sint Lucas in Brussels, collaborated with Wolfgang Tschapeller and Henke und Schreihek in Vienna, Austria. He has been a professor of architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the ULG University (Liège) since 2007.
Thierry Decuypere (1973, Brussels), graduated in 1996 from the Institut Supérieur d'Architecture Victor Horta, worked for three years with Olivier Bastin, Escaut office in Brussels. He has taught since 2003 and has directed a master's workshop in architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the ULB (Brussels) since 2007.
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