Silkstreet Playhouse
Architecture: MArch
Rania Gomaa
Year 02
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Project
Theatres thrive when they challenge and enrich one another, offering audiences diverse experiences. This project will not stand alone but exist in dialogue. Sitting lightly atop the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, this lightweight timber structure will embody sustainability, flexibility and warmth in its brutalist surroundings. It will seamlessly integrate into the Barbican, extending the school’s artistic practice and enhancing the area’s cultural vibrancy.
Project
This project will embrace contrast and dialogue. One night may feature an intimate avant-garde work in the theatre in the round; the next, a grand classical production in the thrust theatre. This dynamic interplay will keep the theatre vital and responsive to evolving artistic needs.
By integrating into a larger cultural network, this design will bridge the established with the emerging and the formal with the unexpected. It will be a space that speaks, listens and invites engagement, proving that theatre is most powerful when in motion, in dialogue and deeply connected to its city.
