Courtyard Piazza Theatre
Architecture: MArch
Deni Ignatova
Year 02
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The project’s site location is the premises of the Former Police and Fire Station in Nottingham. It is located adjacent to the Arkwright and Newton Nottingham Trent University buildings. The Former Police and Fire Station building is a Grade II listed building, for which one of the design aims of the project is to preserve the character of it as much as possible, whilst creating a contemporary project.
As the existing building on site is U-shaped, it creates a courtyard. The courtyard is separated into two parts with a height difference of 3m. The project utilises this by placing the courtyard dance theatre accordingly with the stage sitting on the 3m courtyard side, allowing for heavy vehicles coming in through the existing route on site to service it.
As the site premises is surrounded by abandoned buildings, this leaves the huge plot to be unoccupied. The site is located nearby the university buildings and therefore pedestrians are constantly circulating around the site. This creates the opportunity to utilise the building as a community project, allowing for usual site inhabitants to go in and use spaces within. Hence why, the project has another aim of creating a social space within the site premises. This is to be done around the courtyard dance theatre, creating a piazza, that houses both people attending the theatre and not. The piazza also creates bridging over the existing site courtyard height differences.
