WEEK 9_Mid Review

BERNARD TSCHUMI

Le Fresnoy National Studio for the Contemporary Arts, 1991-1997

Tschumi designed the conditions of the in-between space to become the programmatic core.

The design gives the affect of ascending to a new level.

Explores a space activated by program.

My own project located in the St Anne’s church in Prague intends to become focused around the notion of the “in-between” space located between the new roof of the ‘white box’ and the existing

roof of the St Anne’s church.

HEAD IN BY MAGMA ARCHITECTURE

The structure is supported above the floor and made from fabric stretched between alluminium frames

on the walls and ceiling of the gallery.

Visitors view models of the practice’s projects – which are suspended inside the void – by standing underneath and inserting their heads through holes in the underside of the structure.

KATRIN SIGURDARDOTTIR

Sigurdardottir creates imaginary spaces within another space. Dealing with

scale to create a relationship between the work and the viewer. She uses

architectural structures to bring together nature and design, allowing the

viewer to participate with the work

Prague Crossroads.

• 30.09. 2004 Reconstruction of the Prague Crossroads
• 31.12. 2003 Reconstruction of the Prague Crossroads
• Looking at the structure of the site, to see how this can influence the design and structure of the spatial intervention.

Pati Diagrams Plan + Sections

Back (above) of House_ Performance chamber + main rehearsal space

Performance chamber_ White box

Front (below) of house: Auditorium entry_ Lobby_ Toilets

Back (below) of house: Hair and makeup room_ Conference room

Double skin ‘white box’

I Have decided to use the 'double skin' method for the 'white box' so that it remains a solitary spatial gesture when entering the space.

(Im)mater(iality) and the black box theatre as an 'empty space' of Re-production

Associate Professor Dorita Hannah, Massey University, New Zealand

"....20th century 'theatricians'', such as Meyerhold, Arstuad, Brecht, Piscator, Schlemmer and Grotowski, sought to eradicate the totalising proscenium arch and disrupt the boundaries between actor and spectator, exterior and interior, street and stage, intensifying the experience as an engaging hallucinatory event"

(p.27)

" Characterised by an unprecedented continuity between exterior and interior " (p.5)

(Maria Luisa Palumbo (2000) New wombs: Electronic Bodies and Architectural Disorders. Basel: Birkhauser.)

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KEY NOTES

The blank space, the emptiness in-between.

The viewer becomes an active agent, a participant producing and seeing unique aspects of the performance at every turn.