Münchner Volkstheater / LRO GmbH & Co. KG Freie Architekten BDA

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Text description provided by the architects.On the former site of the slaughterhouse and stockyard of Munich, a new urban quarter is developing, with the Volkstheater in its center. The brick façade echoes the materiality of the surrounding old buildings.The plasticity of the building with its staggered volumes is a result of functional requirements. On top of the brick base, the technical parts of the theatre, are set back and form the next higher layer.They are encased with a white, folded grid structure made of fine metal mesh. The protruding, central stage tower received a semi-transparent membrane façade of white fabric.A wide brick archway guiding into the courtyard connects the new theatre and an existing historic building into a new urban block.