Haworth Tompkins previews work at Woolwich theatre-company base
Temporary facilities for Punchdrunk add entrance pavilion to listed industrial buildings
Haworth Tompkins’ temporary pavilion for theatre company Punchdrunk at Woolwich Works
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Haworth Tompkins’ temporary pavilion for theatre company Punchdrunk at Woolwich Works
Source: Fred Howarth/Haworth Tompkins
Haworth Tompkins’ temporary pavilion joins one of the listed structures at Woolwich
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Detail of the mesh curtaining at Haworth Tompkins’ temporary pavilion for theatre company Punchdrunk’s Woolwich Works HQ
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Warehouse offices at Punchdrunk’s Woolwich Works HQ
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Warehouse offices at Punchdrunk’s Woolwich Works HQ
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Haworth Tompkins’ temporary pavilion for theatre company Punchdrunk at Woolwich Works
Source: Fred Howarth/Haworth Tompkins
Haworth Tompkins’ temporary pavilion for theatre company Punchdrunk at Woolwich Works
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Vinicius Salles, Omagbitse Omagbemi and Andrea Carrucciu in a scene from Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City
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Alison Monique Adnet in a scene from Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City
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Yilin Kong in a scene from Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City
Source: Julian Abrams
Stirling Prize-winner Haworth Tompkins has released images of new temporary facilities it has created for immersive theatre company Punchdrunk’s base in south-east London.
The practice, which won the UK’s biggest architecture prize in 2014 for its Liverpool Everyman Theatre, created a temporary entrance pavilion for Punchdrunk’s Woolwich Works base, housed in grade II-listed industrial buildings at Woolwich Arsenal.
Haworth Tompkins’ entrance pavilion, named “One Cartridge Place” spans a carriageway connecting three structures at the site that are housing the theatre company’s new immersive event The Burnt City.
The lightweight timber-framed structure is clad in polycarbonate with a decorative chain mail mesh cladding. It includes a box office and internal passageways linking the buildings used during the performance.
A system of sand-bag foundations supports the temporary structure through what Haworth Tompkins describes as a “complex negotiation of internal floor levels”.
The practice also designed other infrastructure for The Burnt City, which sets its backdrop as the fall of Troy.
The production runs until December.
