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“KILDEN”, Performing Arts Center for SA?rlandet
LOCATION:
Kristiansand, Norway
STATUS:
International Architecture Competition 2005, 1st prize
Construction start 2007
Core finished October 2010
Construction work complete July 2011
Opening January 2012
COMPETITION TEAM:
ALA Architects ltd
Juho Gr nholm, Antti Nousjoki, Janne Ter svirta, Samuli Woolston
PROJECT TEAM:
ALA Architects ltd / Helsinki, Kristiansand
in collaboration with:
SMS Arkitekter AS / Kristiansand
Acoustical designer:
BSA: ARUP Acoustics / London with BS akustikk / Oslo
Theatre technical designer:
Theatre Projects Consultants / London
Building engineering:
Multiconsult AS / Oslo, Kristiansand
Mechanical Engineering:
Sweco Groner / Oslo
Electrical Engineering:
COWI / Oslo, Kristiansand
CLIENT:
Teater- og Konserthus for SA?rlandet IKS
PROGRAM:
Approx. 27000m2
Concert hall with 1200 seats, Theatre-/Opera hall with 750 seats, multipurpose hall and small theatre hall, offices, workshops, rehearsal spaces, car park for 400 cars.
DESCRIPTION:
The Performing Arts Centre ai???KILDENai??? will house three organizations: the ai???Agder Theater , the ai???Kristiansand Philharmonic and the ai???Opera South .
The four performance halls are lined up in the mid-zone of the building leaving the production -spaces to the east and audience -spaces to the west side. Further on the west along the waterside, a huge cantilevered roof will cover both the public city-space by the sea and the foyer space which provides access to the shows.
Waterfront-facade clad with local oak follows the forms defined by the halls and creates a surface separating real world from the illusional.
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