Univers Theaters

The Univers Multimedia Theatre, a temporary structure first erected in Aarhus, Denmark in 1997, brought architecture, theater and media technologies to the intersection of event-structure and historic presence. The aim of the project was to provide an architecture in keeping with the goals of the prestigious Aarhus International Theater Festival—one that would anticipate and incorporate multimedia technologies and prompt social exchanges (virtual and actual) in the historic Bispetorv Square at the center of Aarhus.
In addition to implementing structural and mediated technologies, Asymptote created an architecture of hybrid form, unorthodox materiality and efficient structure to address the critical position of a new architecture confronting the contemporary urbanism of European cities today.