09-10 Movement and Notation

Final Panels:

Thesis:

The public realm is to be connected to the existing landscape and the public users will have a continuous route into the building where the existing landscape of the proposed campus flows into the space. The public realm will be interrupted by music and dance, these interruptions will occur as the programme above and below emerge and grow into the public space in the manner of stalagmite and stalactite. This concept aims to capture dance and music and to blur movement, in affect reversing the blurred movement of a dancer and notations of a musician.

The continuous landscape forms the undulating surface within the building. Along this landscape, the topography of auditoria begins to emerge with areas where programme can begin to inhabit.

Types of programme:

School and backbone for the production of dance and music performances;

open raw performances orientated towards a less professional performance; main auditorium used professionally for large performances;

practice auditorium used by the performers prior the opening night;

lecture theater used by the students studying within the environment;

recording studio

Below the continuous surface of the landscape, the music and dance intertwine to inhabit spaces. Above the continuous surface the music is lifted and the topography of this block reflects the need for the corresponding auditoria that has emerged below.

Breakout Spaces:

The Plot:

Campus Urban Grain:

Existing Site:

Near-by Similar Brief:

The Wider Context:

Sketch Model 02:

Sketch Model:

Programme Reshuffle:

Programme Distribution Iteration 3:

The different functions within each programme are distributed in the same position as found in the programme overlap diagram. Both programmes lock around the central shared space and where both programme overlap they interlock in section.

Programme Distribution Iteration 2:

The model begins as the previous iteration but the central slice is removed, the dance and music is put aside and replaced by a complete public realm.

Programme Distribution:

From the study of the programme massing relation and programme overlap one block of blue foam was used to represent the entire mass of the two programmes.

Programme Overlap:

The programmes are each extracted and represented as a mass in relation to each other and arranged according to their category.

Programme Insertion:

Taking the dance school as the main and then inserting only the main functions of the recording studio with a comparison or mass with each function broken down into their categories; public [red], shared [orange], dance [yellow], music [green], private [blue] and circulation [purple].

Programme Break Down:

Break down and area study of a typical dance school and recording studio. The briefs were lifted from the Laban for the dance school designed by Herzog and de Meuron and Real World Studios for the recording studio founded by rock musician Peter Gabriel.