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Kilden Theatre and Concert Hall, Kristiansand

The wave wall at Kilden separates fantasy and reality, and the world of aesthetic experience from the diesel fumes of the working harbourside.

Architect: ALA Architects in collaboration with SMS Arkitekter AS
Published 25 May, 2012
 
The wave wall symbolises the border between fantasy and reality.

The wave wall symbolises the border between fantasy and reality.

Kilden is located alongside a working harbor.

 
 

From the foyer. The main foyer below the wave wall faces the harbour. Access to the auditoria is through the wall, in to the world of fantasy and performance.

From the foyer.

From the foyer.

From the theatre- and opera auditorium.

From the foyer.

From the foyer.

From the theatre- and opera auditorium.

The wave wall consists of 25 000 parts and covers 4000 square metres.

Kilden is located alongside a working harbor.

At the back of the foyer, the audience goes through the wave wall into the world of theatre.

The view from the café is to shipping containers and shrimp trawlers.

The light installation “Coronium” by Vong Phaophanit and Claire Obussier in the upper foyer. Wall painting by Josefine Lyche.

 
 
 
 
 
 
Completion: 2011

Address:
Sjølystveien 2, Kristiansand

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Photo:
Iwan Baan, Tuomas Uusheimo

Kilden is located in the old harbour just next to Kristiansand city centre. It is home to the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, Agder Theatre and Opera Sør, and has four performance halls in a row, with the public spaces facing the evening sun and the fjord under the undulating roof, and rehearsal, production and support spaces facing the road at the back. The undulating forms reveal the outlines and entrances of the main auditoriums. The halls are separate in-situ cast concrete boxes for acoustic isolation, seating from 700 to 100 people. The steel cantilever roof structure, from which the 126 solid oak frame elements of the wave are hung, is fixed to the halls. The three black facades are made of brushed and anodized aluminium panels. The foyer has a stage set-like atmosphere of colour and artificial light.