Laban Dance Centre
Deptford’s St.Paul’s Church becomes an important point of reference for the new complex. The large, embracing gesture of the Laban building volume gives the effect of creating a spatial limitation as well as a melting together of Laban Garden and Laban Centre. The topographically shaped structure of the garden – simultaneously serving as an entrance yard for the Laban Centre and a place for walking, playing or leisure – finds corresponding qualities in the interior gestalt of the building. All activities are intermixed and distributed on only two main levels. This promotes communication within the entire building. The large theater, the heart of the Laban organism, is located in the center of the building: the orientation point in the open “cityscape” of the first floor. The library, cafeteria and also parts of the production facilities and the administration are, through the use of transparent and translucent walls, to be structured rather than separated. The upper story houses most of the studios creating a dense fabric, like that of an urban center where each studio has a different size, height, form and color.
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