Year 3/ Project 2/ Forgotten Places
Year 3/ Project 2/ Forgotten Places from Holly Trehearn
Year 3/ Project 2/ Forgotten Places

‘The Elephant & Castle Theatre and Ballet School'

The Coronet Theatre has remained a venue for entertainment for over 100 years in Elephant & Castle, but it now mostly used as a night-club and concert venue, it is in danger of being closed.

The area is being redeveloped alongside the demolition plans for the infamous Heygate estate just the other side of Elephant Road to the Coronet.

To re-establish this failing music venue back into a thriving place for performance was a challenge I wanted to undertake, as well as
the possibility of expanding the use of the archway units that sit below the viaduct next to the venue so that the market places and small businesses can stay in Elephant & Castle. I wanted to do this through keeping original and historical structure, while improving and changing its function- injecting life into what is a forgotten and unloved place.

Movement Mapping
Exterior view from E&C train platform Everyone is part of the performance: Different transparencies of glass on the facade of the dance studio give different viewing experiences to those watching on the platform. Some panels allow just enough to make out dancing shadows, while others allow even the smallest movements to be seen. Dancers always have an audience in this studio that sits above the train station, bringing performance to the everyday- not just on show nights.
Site Plan
Plans
Scheme Axonometric Outside Looking In: Experiencing the Exterior Spaces
Scheme Axonometic: Part of the Performance: Ballet School Studios and Forum Spaces
Scheme Axonometric Under The Roof: Space, Body & Movement/ The Architecture of Performance The Box's fly tower extrudes into the skyline of Elephant & Castle- where we can see the changing of set and curtains from the exterior roof spaces and from street level.
Scheme Section: A Slice of the Action
Exterior Render: Approach from Elephant Road
Exterior Render Open marketplace in viaduct Archways
Interior Render Dance Forum
Interior Render 'The Box'- a new smaller performance space feels to have been dropped from the roof, connected to the new dance studios and forum that sit ontop of the theatre. Breaking up the original theatre into 2 smaller performance spaces, with the circle seating now exclusively for The Box.
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Year 3/ Project 2/ Forgotten Places

‘The Elephant & Castle Theatre and Ballet School'

The Coronet Theatre has remained a venue for entertainment for over 100 years in Elephant & Castle, but it now mostly used as a night-club and concert venue, it is in danger of being closed.

The area is being redeveloped alongside the demolition plans for the infamous Heygate estate just the other side of Elephant Road to the Coronet.

To re-establish this failing music venue back into a thriving place for performance was a challenge I wanted to undertake, as well as
the possibility of expanding the use of the archway units that sit below the viaduct next to the venue so that the market places and small businesses can stay in Elephant & Castle. I wanted to do this through keeping original and historical structure, while improving and changing its function- injecting life into what is a forgotten and unloved place.

Holly Trehearn
Part 1 Architect, BArch Architecture Buntingford, United Kingdom