Performing Arts Centre Brighton College / krft

Performing Arts Centre Brighton College / krft - Exterior Photography, Windows, FacadePerforming Arts Centre Brighton College / krft - Interior Photography, WindowsPerforming Arts Centre Brighton College / krft - Interior PhotographyPerforming Arts Centre Brighton College / krft - Interior PhotographyPerforming Arts Centre Brighton College / krft - More Images+ 9

  • Architects: Krft
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  3880
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2024
  • Lead Architect: Thomas Dieben
More SpecsLess Specs
Performing Arts Centre Brighton College / krft - Exterior Photography, Windows, Facade

Text description provided by the architects. A new Performance Arts Centre for Brighton College, with a fully equipped 400-seat theatre. The 3000-square meter building incorporates studio spaces, social spaces, classrooms, and a multifunctional theatre hall on a very compact site on the monumental neogothic campus.

Performing Arts Centre Brighton College / krft - Exterior Photography, Windows, Facade
Performing Arts Centre Brighton College / krft - Interior Photography, Windows

The size that was briefed by the College was quite large for the compact size, which is squeezed in between the listed Gilbert Scott-designed Main Building and the newly built School for Sports and Science. By setting the building apart from the monumental buildings, new intimate outdoor spaces appear, but it also requires a very refined spatial puzzle to make it fit.

Performing Arts Centre Brighton College / krft - Interior Photography
Performing Arts Centre Brighton College / krft - Interior Photography

This puzzle required some of the rooms to step out of the site footprint. Therefore, the theatre hall is raised to open up the ground floor for social spaces. This resulted in a dynamic, sculptural shape - almost like a ballerina - that is clad with the same material on all facades and roofs. The curved brick and flint facade design mediate between the monumental and the contemporary in a dynamic play of local and historical materials. 

Performing Arts Centre Brighton College / krft - Interior Photography, Table, Windows, Facade, Chair
Performing Arts Centre Brighton College / krft - Exterior Photography, Windows, Facade

The underground studios, the raised theatre hall, and social spaces on the ground floor are all connected with a 3-dimensional public interior, with wide staircases going up and down, bathing in daylight. The theatre hall itself is a compact, smart, detailed, wooden playbox with a daylight oculus, making it useful as a daily practice space as well.  

Performing Arts Centre Brighton College / krft - Exterior Photography, Windows

Project gallery

See allShow less

Project location

Address:Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom

Click to open map
Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.
About this office
Cite: "Performing Arts Centre Brighton College / krft" 24 Jun 2024. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1017993/performing-arts-centre-brighton-college-krft> ISSN 0719-8884

布莱顿学院表演艺术中心 / krft

You've started following your first account!

Did you know?

You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.