The site is located in Blumau reference to the historical center and the new density field along the corridor as a joint station with the people of the garden as a hub.
From out of this positioning of the site's potential, concise urban landmark has become.
Silent - noise
The neighborhood with the people of inner-city garden as a place of "relative" silence demands for a shift towards the curtain road noise to a bundling of traffic flow with the track rail body. This representative of the People's garden to park in front of the theater and music in a greater public importance is raised within the urban fabric.
Theater District
The design of the studied theater space flows into the road network of the Public Garden. Green islands are transformed into green space - expanding the reverse, the way to the place - the place is the foyer.
By the direct, pedestrian connection between theater and popular garden park with the added surrounding buildings and the street theater of the potential, over several years to the "theater district" - develop - with a lively restaurant and bar scene.
The building
The shape of the structure is based on several points:
1. urban: As already described, the musical theater is a central point at an interface of several neighborhoods. In this regard, claiming the building as an independent, centered, all access roads (access) devices recognizable form. It is the completion of the space station in the north-west axis and is a marker of Blumauerstraße, coming from the northeast, and the Kärntner Strasse, from the South dar.
2. on the immediate environment: the duality Music Theatre - People's Services will once again its reflection in the tension between volume / void, nature / culture. The volumetric continuation of the blocks north of the Blumauerstraße shows a logical growth from the stock.
3. the "real" essence of musical theater: it sounding the artistic energies of the city is beyond the music! This means it is not about a direct transfer of music into architecture - rather a transformation. This leads to the idea of transformation of the movement in music is art of the time out to set architecture in light of the time....more
