Linz Tanztheater | Dancing Theatre in Linz | Austria | Designed By Atelier Thomas Pucher

Urban - The musical theater as a landmark
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

Estonian National Museum | Tartu | Estonia | Atelier Thomas Pucher

Estonia has 1.341.664 inhabitants. 5% of the surface is covered with lakes, 44% with woods. The 45.227km² country has had a versatile history throughout the centuries. The first inhabitants appeared around 3.000 B.C.but it took a long time until the appearance of the Estonian state was marked on June 19, 1925. The Estonian people suffered hundreds of years of conquests and oppression. In 1991 it became independent and since 2004 it has been a member of the EU. The cultural history of Estonia will be preserved in the new Estonian national museum, a huge storehouse and a symbol of identity. As a metaphor for this point of time and as an object of the overwhelming landscape it is made of light.

Facade
The facade consists of two curtain-layers of enamelled glass, cut out into fields of leaves by laser-technology. The shapes used are borrowed from the Estonian landscape. Each shape reflects the shape of an Estonian lake. The brilliant surface of the material and the distance of layers force the building to become a reflection of the different light conditions of Estonia. By its size and appearance it becomes an object of the landscape itself.

The openness of the glass-layers is adapted to the function and needs of the area behind. Public areas like the reading hall, education etc. need much transparency. Here the layers are suspended in front of a glass-facade and also act as sun-blinds. Exhibition and storage areas shall be protected from natural light. Here the layers are suspended in front of a closed wall with some tiny openings, also in the form of lakes.

Form
By its appearance and its sheer size, the building does not need any form more complicated than a cube. By stacking the entire programme simply on top of each other, the shortest possible way between programmes is achieved. By perforating the slab ceilings in a pixel-like manner the building becomes “transparent” inside, shortcuts and connections between different functions and areas are easily possible, linking everything with everything.

As a matter of fact the volume of 52.5 x 52.5 x 52.5m (=144.703m³) is also the most efficient way of organising the space allocation plan in terms of the relationship surface area / volume. This means economic construction-methods and a significant reduction of energy consumption over the life cycle of the building.....more