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WSA On Display 2020

WSA On Display 2020

  • Part I – BSc
    • Year 3
      • Unit 01: Alternative Arrangements
      • Unit 02: The Frontier Town
      • Unit 03: Freshwater and Limits
      • Unit 04: The Productive City
      • Unit 05: Reconfiguring Public Space
      • Unit 06: Blitz
      • Unit 07: Rural
      • Unit 08: Love For One’s Own Home
      • Unit 09: Let the Tide do the Work: A Peoples Palace
      • Unit 10: Grow
      • Unit 11: Archiving Place
      • Unit 12: Zen Dojo
    • Year 2
      • Butetown: Library And Third Space
      • City Centre: School Of Design
      • City Road: Youth Centre
      • Llandaff: Fine Art Gallery
      • Penarth: Respite Centre
      • Pontypridd: Performance Space
    • Year 1
      • Within
      • Beyond
    • Vertical Studio
  • Part II – M.Arch
    • M. Arch Year 2
      • XI Infrastructure Urbanism
      • XII Value
      • XIII Liveable Urbanism
      • XIV Environmental Imagination
      • XIX Growing Structures
      • XV Local Adaptation
      • XVI Craft
      • XVII Verticality
      • XVIII 1.5 degrees
      • XX Designing Histories
    • M. Arch Year I
      • Design in Practice
      • Reflective Practice
  • Masters Programmes
    • MA Architectural Design
      • Unit A – EMUVE Palermo 2020 refugees and migrants
      • Unit B – Synergetic landscapes
      • Unit C – Circular landscapes
      • Unit D – Questioning the Ambivalence of Urban Commons
      • Design Workshops
      • MA AD Lecture Series
    • MA Urban Design
      • Gentrification: Cardiff
      • Community: East London
      • Learning at MA UD
    • MSc Computational Methods in Architecture
    • MSc Sustainable Building Conservation
      • About the course
      • Part A – Whitchurch Hospital Studies
      • Part B – Whitchurch Hospital Proposals
    • MSc Environmental Design of Buildings
    • MSc Sustainable Mega Buildings
      • About the Course
      • Sustainable Service Systems for Mega Buildings
      • Sustainable-Mega Buildings Design
  • PhD/M.Phil Research
    • International Research Community
  • The Curation Process

Pontypridd: Performance Space

Studio tutors: Pippa Smith, Tim Burton

Pontypridd does not currently have a theatre or cinema. This has not always been the case. In 1885 the Pontypridd Market and Town Hall Company built the Town Hall theatre above the covered market. The theatre was accessed via Penuel lane via two corrugated iron clad walkways that bridge over the top of the market. The theatre housed up to 1700 people. The theatre closed in 1982 and has been derelict ever since.

Students were tasked with providing a new cultural centre for the town. The primary program for proposals was a high quality cinema and performance space, providing an arts venue suitable for showing a wide range of films, and a performance space for international acts, use by community groups and for supporting local talent.

Studio Gallery

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Evie Dixon

Pontypridd Community Theatre This proposal is for an adaptive reuse project involving a…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Morgan Taylor

The Town Hall Theatre Pontypridd is a small valley in the Rhondda Cynon…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Annabel Hocking

The Old Town Hall Pontypridd has a rich history and tradition of performance…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Kate Urwin

Taff Vale Community Arts Centre The proposal for a new cultural centre in…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
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