Andrew Todd presents the wooden model of Hardelot to Elizabeth II during her State Visit to France in 2014

Andrew Todd, HMQ, the Duke of Edinburgh, Lady Ricketts, Pas de Calais President Dominique Dupilet, Bridget O'Rourke and Benoit Grécourt

Andrew Todd, Peter Ricketts, Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh, Lady Suzanne Ricketts

Andrew Todd, Natasha Parry and Peter Brook

exploded isometric of principal volumes

Perspex model made by Laboratoires Eiffel in order to test the building's interior aerodynamics

Segment of perspex model used to determine air intake pathways

Chateau d'Hardelot Director Benoit Grécourt and artistic director Sébastien Mahieuxe at the Soufflerie Eiffel

Hardelot massing model being tested at the Soufflerie Eiffel

Diagram of air intakes (LM)

Computer section of air movement in auditorium (LM)

Andrew Todd's dog Suki shortly before she intuitively determined the optimum future location for the building, June 2013

Photograph taken from the spot revealed by Suki, now the view from the theatre's front door

computer study model without bamboo, competition phase

Superimposition at identical scale with the remains of the Rose Theatre

model interior

Andrew Todd and Midsummer Festival Director Sébastien Mahieuxe at the inauguration in June 2016

Study trip to the reconstructed Globe in London

Andrew Todd visiting the Bambouserai d'Anduze to research the theatre's exterior cage in Dendrocalmus Asper

Bamboo screen prototype in Studio Andrew Todd's office

Elizabethan Theatre,

Chateau d'Hardelot - Process

Condette, France

Completed 2016

Winner, World Architecture News Wood in Architecture Award 2018

Nominated, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture -Mies van der Rohe Prize

Special Commendation, GAGA Awards, the Galvanisers’ Association

The building's design process involved making physical prototypes in our studio of elements such as facade cladding, balcony fronts and bamboo screening; further scale models were made by Aérodynamique Eiffel in order to test and define the building's unprecedented natural ventilation system. The project was presented during design to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and theatre director Peter Brook (a longtime guide of practice director Andrew Todd). The construction process took 2 years, beginning with a sheet-pile foundation system, concrete basement and then the spectacular erection -in only 7 weeks- of the building's all-wood superstructure. We visited the Merk factory near Augsburg to observe the unprecedented fabrication process of the building's all-curved CLT structure.

See also for this project: Exteriors / Auditorium / Construction / Details / Servant / Site

Client: Conseil Départemental du Pas de Calais

Size: 1233 m2

Budget: 4.3 million euros (construction cost before tax)

Team:

Studio Andrew Todd architects, auditorium and landscape design

Niclas Dünnebacke

Philip Mellor-Ribet

Bridget O'Rourke

Nadia Raïs

Solveig Rottier

Andrew Todd

L+A Landscape Architects

LM Structural and Environmental Engineering

Charcoalblue Acoustics and Theatre Consultants

Bureau Michel Forgue, Cost Consultant

Cabinet Casso, Fire Engineering