Performers' House

Performers’ House is located in the centre of Silkeborg, at the heart of the Paper Mill’s revitalized industrial history. The historic Boiler Building is transformed, and a new building designed. Spacious performance areas, teaching rooms, a canteen/restaurant, a student café and accommodation, housing for staff. Long sightlines extend horizontally across the building. The demarcation lines between inside and out and between the individual elements in the academy organism are up for grabs – continually being redrawn. On the ground floor internal folding walls and red curtains can be opened and closed provide endless potential for varying interiors. The façade too is versatile: shutters on the main stages fold up and can be slid to one side and the large glazing elements be opened up to the town. Music is thus rendered audible and the theatrical performance visible to passers-by. An academy whose physical form is as dynamic as the life that pulsates within it. (text by SML)