From lines to planes to solids to habitats, House for a Dance chronicles RISD's architectural design principles course. Moving through drawing, animation, sculpture, model, and drafting, a formal language is created and used in the final inhabited structure.
The final given program is to house and/or express Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps (informally Rite of Spring), a ballet and accompanied percussive score. Mapping the dance to find modes of expression coalesces with the evolved forms found through animation, drawing, and sculpture.
The dance analyzed and mapped was Maurice Bejart's geometrical, formal, and jagged choreography, one with distinct level changes, energy progression, and responses to Stravinsky's percussive score.
The translation from mapping to program to structure existed in designing literal level changes through a series of jagged steps, in rhythm with the music and choreography.
All planes are taken to express the music. As the dancer skims across the top, playing the music, a viewer below experiences the change in level and height through both physical steps and allowances for light.
