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MUSIC THEATRE WROCLAW OPERETTA
Location:   Wroc³aw, Marsz. Józefa Pi³sudskiego Street 67
Authors:   Juliusz Erdman, Piotr Krynicki, Zbigniew Maęków, Marta Mnich, Grzegorz Siergiej
Cooperation:   -
Investor:   Music Theatre Wroclaw Operetta
Area:    
Building
Usable
 
7248m2
Capacity:    
Calendar:    
Project
Realization
  2003
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Prizes:   3rd prize ex aequo (nos. 1st and 2nd prize awarded) in a competition for the complex extension of the Wroc³aw opera house in Wroc³aw in Józefa Pi³sudskiego street.


The building fits in with the lines of an elegant Wroc³aw street, is distinguished from its surroundings by its light style, but simultaneously respecting the rule applied to the arrangement of the adjacent buildings, which are set up like pieces of furniture of similar dimensions and style in one line. The main objective was to reveal all the fascinating activities preceding the show: dance, chorus and orchestra rehearsals. The theatre's everyday life was enclosed in the specific volumes and pushed out to the street, showing it to passers-by as an advertisement and a herald of approaching celebrations. The building facade on one hand is adapted to the environment with its dimensions, frontage line and the continuation of the basement, and on the other hand it introduces a new quality by maximum opening and a search for an interaction between the life of a bustling street and the artistic activities inside the theatre.

The functional plan of the building is divided into three parts: the entrance hall from the side of Józefa Pi³sudskiego street, an extended stage with facility rooms from the side of Wojciecha Bogus³awskiego, and stage facilities from the side of ¦widnicka street. Above the stage facilities there are rooms for actors and offices, and on the top floor an independent hotel wing was placed.

The architecture of the entrance-zone is created by the enclosed cubic spaces of the halls for musicians and dancers and an open foyer, arranged on several levels of foot-bridges. The entrance hall was covered with a glazed structure. Large pieces of glazing were also used on the exterior wall from the side of Józefa Pi³sudskiego street, which improves the building's appearance on the background of the serious-looking, heavy city facades of the edifices raising next to it.

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