Comedie de Bethune - National Drama Theater

This theater was originally built in 1999 but the owners felt a rehearsing space for the dancers was needed, among other areas. The dark purple portion of the building- which includes an existing adjacent house is a renovation, which seamlessly assembles to the existing part of the building by means of panels attached to diagonal frames that compose the older structure; they decided to make the extension using different materials, colors and textures to stress the age difference between the two structures.

The narrow condition of the space available for expansion determined the compressed configuration of the project's layout; two exits had to be added, one for the public and one for the performers, facing different streets.