FINSA DESIGN /

Theatr IOLO and FINSA collaborated and requested a theatre space for children which could be easily dismantled and transported to different places. So, as a team we were quite determined to design a component that could be replicated and put together with other similar components to form a small interactive theatre space. Thus, the component would be seen as a piece of ‘LEGO’.

We looked at different spaces that are often required in and around the stage so that the component could be designed in a way that would provide a solution to these requirements.

A key element in consideration was the means by which the stage space can be adjusted within a time sequence. The audience, in front of which the performance occurs, varies, as well as the venue. It goes from one, two, three ... eighty at the Unicorn Theatre on Colum Road in Llandaff Primary School or at an Austrian annual festival.

The neutrality of the easily disasembled wooden panels provide the freedom to adjust to the present moment and context.

FINSA and Theatr IOLO 2018

Design a theatre space for children

Nikoleta Petrova, Jegor Sivenkov, Akezhan Zhunussov, Veronika Viachireva and Prerit Kularia

As the iteration process went through the different stages, we ended up with a panel that could be manipulated around the pivot points in several different ways to form a side stage area, a back screen for the theatre, a source of lighting through the panels, form an enclosed or open space for performance as desired, and a chair.

The panel was considered to be the size of a child (120cm), so that it would become a playful piece of furniture that when joined together with other similar pieces, would create a stage setting and an interactive piece of architecture.