Kamal Theatre

Kazan, Russia

(Competition)

Borgos Pieper was a finalist in the international architectural competition organized by the Republic of Tatarstan and the city of Kazan for the new Kamal Theatre in Kazan, Russia.

Borgos Pieper’s proposal combined a land-art approach to the site and sculpted its volume around groups of trees and opened up to the adjacent lake. Four auditoriums, public facilities, production and support spaces were organized around a linear glazed theatre street that connected all the back-of-house areas. A profiled green roof marks the volume of the auditoriums from the outside and a luminous fly tower marked a delicate silhouette in the skyline.

The competition jury selected eight teams, including Borgos Pieper, from 537 participants. Borgos Pieper had developed the proposal with the local team, Novikov Studio and Theatre Projects (Acoustics and Theatre Design) as a consortium.

Role of Sébastien Jouan: Technical Director and Acoustic Design

Year: 2021

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