The following project is a proposal for the Kilmahew Theatre. The theatre is based in the abandoned concrete shell of Saint Peter’s Seminary, in Scotland. Saint Peter’s Seminary was built on the Kilmahew estate in 1961 by Architects Gillepsie, Kidd and Coia. Its purpose as a sanctuary for training catholic priest only lasted 19 years due to low admissions. The Catholic Church gave the abandoned site to the ‘Kilmahew Trust’ in 2021, who plan on creating a spaces for teaching and education, with a particular focus on performing arts and cinema.
Kilmahew Theatre Proposal
The proposed theatre’s organic fibre glass dome shape comes from a series of experimentations pictured in this portfolio. The experimentations inculded using inflatables to create space/boundaries within the existing fabric of the space. The Kilmahew Theatre focuses on performing arts and architecture education, connecting with existing universities and schools in Glasgow and the surrounding area. The theatre is designed to host events of up to 170 people, together with classroom spaces, backstage, light and sound engineering studios, practise spaces, workshops (to build stage sets ), a box office etc
