Project: Chassé-Theater, Breda, Pays-Bas
Architect: M+R interior architecture bna bni www.mplusr.nl
Product: tretford INTERLIFE sheet, coloris 634, 570, 633, 582 en 524, 4.000 m2
Images: Herman de Winter
Hertzberger's design was based on the sculpture ‘Reclining woman who dreams’. His creed ‘Man is the measure of all things’ becomes clear here. The building features many round and undulating forms, both inside and out. The most prominent element is the undulating roof. Hertzberger was commissioned to add a fly tower to the two biggest auditoriums. But to avoid disfiguring the Breda cityscape with two concrete towers, he decided to cover everything with an undulating roof - a stroke of genius.
Standing 30 metres tall, the Chassé Theatre is the biggest theatre in the Netherlands. The land on which it is built is larger than a football pitch. Its three auditoriums have a capacity of 430, 665 and 212 respectively. There are also three cinema screens with 118, 116 and 68 seats respectively. All the doors to the theatre auditoriums and cinema screens open onto a communal corridor. The architect wanted to create a communal meeting place and promote communication.
The theatre is also accessible outside the cultural programme. The architects M+R developed a flexible work area and catering concept here. The flexible work area CHASSE CONNECT provides a pallet of red furniture and red tretford carpet as a tribute to the theatre. The area has various workplaces which can be used by flex workers. In 2022, tretford carpet was fitted in the cloakroom and the cinema screens of the Chassé Theatre.
The image use is financed by the TreesForAll concept.
For more information, please visit www.chasse.nl, www.treesforall.com and www.tretford.eu.