February 2009 Archives
Some of the facade components that are going to be CNC'd. Also, the wavy model is starts to explore the transition between floor, wall and ceiling (without relying so much on the wires). When it's finished with the acid etched bit overlaid I hope to show how sterility becomes concentrated area of opulence, with the aim 'control' the direction of reading/movement.
I took a small part of the plan and have been looking at exploring a figural reading with the form through creating two clear readings of intertwined shapes; grid and object. I also tried to create a transition between grid and object between both shapes along its axis. The grid and object starts 'sterile' and become 'opulent' while the grid becomes the object and the object becoming the grid.
The logic of
the figural is to be taken forward into the plan and section, and the formal
arrangement of spaces and program. Within a 'standard' theatre there are
several types of program: The Theatres (stage, seating, fly tower, sound and
light booth), Back stage (back stage areas/set, wardrobe, dressing rooms,
rehearsal rooms) , Production (set design, costume design, lighting, sound, and
armoury) Office (Marketing, casting, accounts) and Front of house (Box
office, bar, shop, mini stage, seating area)
The program
and the spatial organization should be in the language of the illusion through
overlapping of program and spaces to create the figural. Back of house
and front of house should be overlaid with the theatre itself to explore this.
After further analysis of the illusions, one of its main characteristics it that they are figural; that is they have two or more different readings overlaid and intertwined in a sense that they can still be read as separate. This model starts to explore this; It looks at the sterility to opulence characteristics as well as the office to theatre transitions overlaid.
Sterility is defined as void of life and pure, with opulence defined as great attention to detail, wealth and pouring fourth without restraint. Therefore the formal language should show this contrast, with the external language being 'pure', simple and void of texture. The internal facade to become lavished with great detail and wealth (that could possibly be expressed through permanent formwork).
This language will form a series of 'curtains' and 'stages' that will separate the different performances that occur within the structure, progressing from a standard office performance to a further convoluted and opulent performances dreamt of with delusions of grandeur within day to day office life.
