NEW THEATRE FOR JIND?ICH?V HRADEC

The revision of a still existing and yet depreciated garden of the former monastery. The building for a new municipal theatre without a perm. ensemble. An austere form created by the hist. structure of the garden encourages variable theatre technology for variable use. The pursuit of guiding the contact with the monastery and of activating its garden.

Something needs to be done about the monastery garden. I want to be an architect, I design a house. It is necessary to approach the garden's heritage from a cultural perspective. The revision of the current state is essential. \nI go through the garden's old layouts and I discover a structure which elegantly matches the whole estate's geometry. Respecting the original order, I create new cultural world behind a wall where there is a house accommodating a theatre that is capable of opening itself to its surroundings. New architecture as a counterbalance to the monastery, as an initiator of activity in the garden as well as a mediator of cultivated/cultural passing through the estate. Monastery garden with new dramaturgy. An alley of trees descending to the theatre. A playground. A majestic lime tree. An orchard. An open air summer scene. \nThe key to the theatre's arrangement is the passage connecting Mi?iovského St. to a yard embedded in the monastery garden. The whole house's architecture tries to guide the feeling of the user/spectator. Coming to see a performance at dusk from the monastery across the garden means approaching a large window leading directly to the theatre hall. People are getting seated. Afterwards, the spectator enters the yard which turns into a passage alongside the lower foyer. Ticket offices, cloakrooms, a bar and the omnipresent monastery above the horizon. Entering the hall via the staircase in the middle of the whole space. The upper foyer faces the street and the spectator rediscovers the monastery only when they enter the hall. A stage and a large window. Those several precious minutes before and after the performance when the monastery's architecture becomes the backdrop to the theatre hall. / when the monastery's architecture takes the front stage. \nThe theatre cannot exist without the garden. The garden probably can do without the theatre. Not in the current state, though. Something needs to be done about the monastery garden.