Published: Monday, February 04, 2008
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By: 3XN Architects

Surface and roof merges.
Plassen ("The Square") Theatre and Jazz-house, Molde, Norway
The Norwegian town of Molde at the Romsdalsfjorden south of Trondheim, is renowned for its roses and its international jazz festival, attracting famous jazz musicians and a wide audience when it takes place every summer in July. The 3XN winning design of the competition for a theatre and jazz-house literally grabs the Gorvellplassen, the site of the new building. It cuts and folds the surface like a giant paper cutting, resulting in a building where the inside and the outside, the surface and the roof, merges to allow the stages, the gallery, and the cafe to open up and take advantage of the outside area.

Low-rise and growing out of the site, the Cultural Centre creates new outdoor spaces.
Emphasizing this principle, the form of the building can be described as horizontal strips, relating to each other creating wide openings for the daylight, providing a splendid view from within as well as from the outside. It is relatively low-rise, consisting of just three floors that make room for Teatret Vart, Molde International Jazz Festival, the Bjornson festival, the library and the arts centre in a compact and well-functioning structure.
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