Haworth Tompkins designs portable auditorium for Royal Exchange Theatre 20.06.19

Haworth Tompkins are working with the Royal Exchange Theatre to create a pop-up venue space to travel around Greater Manchester. The portable auditorium, known as The Den, can be placed in any larger found spaces and seat between 75 and 180 people within a flexible, timber frame covered with natural canvas. The very low carbon structure is designed to be built and dismantled by its audience, as part of the Royal Exchange’s Local Exchange project which aims to expand upon relationships between communities and artists. The Den will make its first appearance this August.

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