Playground@Truman Brewery, London
Playground @ Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London
Year: 2004
Project description: Bar, Club, Cultural Centre
Estimated Contract sum: £2,000,000
WAG: architects/ project managers/ business consultants
Other Consultants: Atelier One, At Large
WAG were asked to complete a feasibility study and design a new type of cultural space. The project guru, David is currently raising funding, and will hopefully be realised. The venue would run on a non profit basis, funding arts activities and supporting charities. The brief required a flexible space that could at different times run as a bar, concert venue, cinema, market, and more. The solution was to design a fixed, ‘archetypal landscape’ within the space, which would house the fixed requirements such as fire escapes, toilets, kitchens etc. Above this landscape there will be a gridwork which would support flexible, moving elements, ranging from lighting ad screens to ‘pods’ containing cinema and bar spaces. The interaction between the fixed landscape and flexible machine would catalyse a broad range of events.
