Chamber stage Arena Theatre

Location: Ostrava
Construction period: 2005
Authors: Marcela Steinbachova, Rastislav Juhas
Graphic design: Kristof Kintera
Link: www.divadloarena.cz

The design was created as a change to the building just before completion. We abolished mineral coffered ceilings, downlights, carpets, some standard doors, omitted unnecessary ones and acknowledged the original materials, beamed ceilings, air conditioning. We designed a concrete floor, smoothed wall surfaces and added atypical elements to the space: steel doors and a bar, atypical furniture, toilets as spaces with an individual character (mirror toilet, toilet with neon signs, toilet with ornaments). A room with urinals as a place of Duchamp's surrealism. Joy, play, surprise. An interaction of theatre and architecture.

Photographs: Andrea Lhotakova