New City Epicenter - Multifunctional City Culture Complex: Theater of Culture - Theater of Light

A place of unceasing contact, but also dissipation of individuals. A place which draws people into mutual interaction: person – person, person – art, person – object.

The thematic framework of the project is the contemporary economy of culture as a new driver of urban development, as well as the role of spectacle in certain spheres of art and human interaction. Accordingly, the projects’ programme is a multi-purpose complex with cultural exhibits and complementary programs, which will be the contents of the new city epicenter. A structure open to all kinds of multi-media arts and expressions, research-oriented spaces, through an unlimited number of disciplines, spheres and functions. As a reflection of different artistic concepts and a variety of artists it would expand a completely new cultural scene of Smederevo. New architecture could be seen as a reflection, or allusion - a figure reminiscent of what was authentic (originally) - the context of the core of a historic city. Theater, as a product of modern technology and understanding of this art form, represents both a segment and an inseparable part of the structure, which revives the existing inherited monument. A place of unceasing contact, but also dissipation of individuals. A place which draws people into mutual interaction: person – person, person – art, person – object. Considering the institutions of the theater, the market and the vertical public space, we notice a certain type of connection in terms of relations, concept and function, with the variability of the object of interest itself.