Beginning with a cube, this semester focuses on deriving form and space to make architecture through existing and created forces.
The final project is a site specific theatre performance space.
My cube studies were geared towards defining a smaller cubic void within a larger cube using line and plane. Tension and compression hold the form of the absent cube, highlighting the rotational movement created when it was removed.
Drawing and diagramming existing forces from surrounding structures allowed me to derive a set of forces which would form the new structure. The cubic void was given a new form, now coming into existence as a theatre space, with the forces that held it in place acting as supporting spaces and circulation.
My initial response to how the edges of the surrounding structures meet the distinct topography of the site is highlighted in my site model and drawings.
Plan and section of theatre.
Plan and section of theatre overlayed with active forces. The forces highlight how the theatre is shaped by surrounding geometry in plan, as well as how it actively changes the surrounding in the form of the ground plane in section.
The theatre responds to the site and the structures surrounding the site. It also in turn affects the site by physically pushing the ground plane to exist within it by altering the topography, creating a dynamic exchange of forces.
Circulation between spaces gave form to three major thresholds, studied and analyzed below.
