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Battersea Arts Centre, 2018

— the rebirth of a town hall for community and theatre use
Battersea Town Hall is a handsome, beautifully made civic building in

south west London, designed by E. W. Mountford in 1893 and Grade II*
listed both for its architectural significance and for its important political
role in the birth of the suffragette and labour movements in the early
twentieth century. Since 1974 it has been home to the arts centre that is
regarded as one of the most important incubators of new performance
work in the UK.
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Haworth Tompkins have been working alongside the Battersea

Arts Centre team, the local community and theatre artists for over a
decade on a series of ongoing, experimental, phased projects that are
gradually transforming the entire building into a powerhouse of creative
communal activity and an explicit record of the buildings vivid history.
Drawing on the existing richness of the building and patterns of

use by artists, a number of improvised, non-invasive alterations were
made alongside specific productions - such as Punchdrunk’s Masque of
the Red Death - to test strategies for change and to evolve a playful but
rigorous architectural language.
Following a period of experimentation, a brief for more permanent

work was developed. These projects include the creation of a new public
outdoor courtyard performance space by selectively stripping back and
patching in a disused light well, and the conversion of unused attics and
rooftops for the organisation’s offices and garden.
Cumulatively, these interventions have resulted in the

reconfiguration of the entire interior to allow the possibility of multiple,
interconnected performance, heritage and community uses, equipping the
organisation for the next phase of its life.
In the context of this narrative approach, the rebuilding of the

building’s Grand Hall after the shocking fire that partially destroyed it in
2015 was able to be assimilated into the project as another, albeit highly
significant, moment of evolution and change.
Haworth Tompkins took the former decorative plaster vault as a

starting point for a new, timber grid ceiling, allowing far greater theatrical
possibility and a much clearer acoustic. The surface of the walls of the
hall and its surrounding corridors have been preserved in their
extraordinary, almost Pompeiian post-fire richness and complexity.
A creative relationship of this duration allows both ‘client’ and

‘architect’ to evaluate the ways in which the collaboration has informed
their respective wider practices. As the project has unfolded over the last
12 years, so BACs mission has evolved from a purely theatrical
undertaking to become a far more wide ranging social project with access
and inclusivity at its core.
Equally, as architects our theatre work has increasingly been

directed towards establishing a ‘cultural commons’ in which buildings for
theatre can be seen less as individual entities, competing for a market
share of an established theatre audience, and more as a diverse,
conglomerate civic space that is available - and meaningful - to the whole
community.
“We owe a debt of gratitude to an architectural practice who

don’t just do design, they also do cultural change” David Jubb,
Artistic Director - BAC
ADDRESS
LAVENDER HILL, BATTERSEA
CLIENT
BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE
MAIN CONTRACTOR
8BUILD, ASHE CONSTRUCTION, GILBERT-ASH
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
PRICE & MYERS, HEYNE TILLETT STEEL
SERVICES ENGINEER
SKELLY & COUCH, XC02
QUANTITY SURVEYOR
BRISTOW JOHNSON
THEATRE CONSULTANT
THEATREPLAN, CHARCOALBLUE
ACOUSTIC ENGINEER
GILLERON SCOTT ACOUSTIC DESIGN, SOUND SPACE DESIGN
PICTURE CREDITS
PHILIP VILE, MORLEY VON STERNBERG, FRED HOWARTH, JAKE TILSON, NICHOLAS HARTWRIGHT, ALEX
BRENNER
VIEW PROJECT DRAWINGS [5]
AWARDS
2019 — WOOD AWARD: BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE
2019 — CHICAGO ATHENAEUM, INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARD: BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE
2019 — RIBA NATIONAL AWARD: BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE
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Battersea Arts Centre, 2018

Battersea Town Hall is a handsome, beautifully made civic building in

Haworth Tompkins have been working alongside the Battersea

Drawing on the existing richness of the building and patterns of

Following a period of experimentation, a brief for more permanent

Cumulatively, these interventions have resulted in the

In the context of this narrative approach, the rebuilding of the

Haworth Tompkins took the former decorative plaster vault as a

A creative relationship of this duration allows both ‘client’ and

Equally, as architects our theatre work has increasingly been

“We owe a debt of gratitude to an architectural practice who

8BUILD, ASHE CONSTRUCTION, GILBERT-ASH

VIEW PROJECT DRAWINGS [5]

VIEW ALL AWARDS

Behind the scenes

Royal Court Theatre

Bristol Old Vic

+44 (0) 20 7250 3225

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