Rock Stage

A permanent stage for the park in Tibro, built on a municipal budget of 300,000 kronor. Ordinary timber framing is clad in fibre-cement sheets, hand-painted as faux marble by students at the town's craft academy, so the structure reads as a stack of oversized quarried blocks.

Because the marbling is painted rather than cut, the veining can be bolder and stranger than any stone would allow. It is the first of fifteen speculative proposals from the Tibro Train Tracks study to be built.

See the project at Anders Berensson Architects

Anders Berensson ArchitectsRose Hallgren, ArchitectPhoto: Linda Hutchins

Press: Archello, Arkitektur, Arkitektur (essay)

Rock Stage seen head-on from the park
Rock Stage from the side, showing the depth of the roof
Corner detail where two painted blocks meet
Interior of the stage under the painted roof
Close-up of the hand-painted red faux marble
The painted soffit seen from below
The build team on site during construction
Students painting the roof sheets as faux marble