Q Theatre, a new performing arts facility in Auckland, utilises concrete to help achieve its sustainability goals through the re-use of a concrete framed building on Queen Street. The effect is to unlock the evocative power of the existing heritage structure, carefully manipulate its configuration and ensure its long-term sustainable use.
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The designers created a new precast concrete clad auditorium building that extracts the maximum value from this material by utilising its structural capacity for shear walls, its mass for acoustic separation and its free form potential and texture to enliven the façade.
Working on a tight site, with an even tighter budget, the project team used concrete to deliver a commercial building of character and beauty that enriches its social setting, preserves resource through re-use and demonstrates its overall success through a regularly packed auditorium.