Brief
This design proposal will examine the connections between past and present through the form of dance and architecture that intervenes into the existing site of the crossroads. This intervention will work with the existing architecture highlighting moments in history, culture, time, place and the everyday. The design will question the surrounding environment through dance, clothing of the space and enhancing moments within the site through stage lighting.
The design will sit outside the realm of a traditional theatre layout and question ideas of visibility and movement; this will allow visitors and spectators to have a sensory engagement with the embodied performance and become part of the installation.
Site
The Prague Crossroads, formerly known as St Anna’s Church, situated in the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague. St Anna’s is an important landmark in the cultural heritage of Prague and is a protected building.
Program
“..we should assume that stages exist everywhere in a city.” [Tadao Ando]
Silk strands as indicators of times in history which could entail a story through colour and light - dramatic forms of lighting - elongating and suspending space from the rafters down - using the site as existing space to reveal and highlight moments in time - clothing the space with these forms of cloth and embodiment - saturated with a water ground revealing the rivers of Prague and the bridges that cross over it [laneways – crossroads]. Spectators becoming apart of the performance whether dancers are occupying the cloth or not, water will rise off the ground as the cloth moves around with dancers, plat forming system constructed in the same elongated language [scaffolding] may be apart of this installation where spectators can rise at the same level as the dancers, therefore reflection from the water and light may interfere with the visibility of the performance questioning what needs to be seen. Cloth has the possibility to have history inscribed into it therefore when dancers aren’t occupying the ‘stage’ spectators could read, touch [sensory] become apart of the intervention taking place.
What are the various spaces for:-
The public (front of house)
The audience (performance space/s)
The technicians (back of house: technical zones)
The performers (stage/s: dressing rooms etc.)
Project Requirements
+ Evidence of research and making in response to this; evidence of process, a body of work developed from week 1 to final week to be displayed at your desk during project
+ images and plans, sections or sectional perspectives, and details [parti plans, sections / scaled drawings @ 1:500, 200, 100, 50, 20, 5, 1] of your intervention in Prague Crossroads, formerly St Anna’s Church, Prague Czech Republic, establishing : how the intervention structures the building in relation to the spatial idea and program; inhabitation intention, how bodies engage with the space.
+ To be digitally archived in a concise manner and placed in the 352_studio dropbox and uploaded as a pdf pr powerpoint to stream, making sure you compile to the SD file naming standards
Learning Objectives
+ Research and investigate theatre architecture
+ Develop a spatial language into a existing site integrating materiality, construction, structure, and theoretical concerns
+ Advance an understanding of involved and varied programs and space
+ Express and represent your intervention through a variety of means and media with a high level of craft and in a way which extends the spatial language in the mode of representation itself
Assessment
+ Richly researchers; site, programs, planning, performance design and spatial typologies and translate these into spatial designs
+ Makes evident a strong and cohesive design process which shows development from an initial spatial idea to a developed scheme, and through details, materiality, construction / structure, planning and program
+ Method of expression of the project which is related to, derived from the found text, spatial idea and program, and which is convincing, evocative and well crafted
+ Evidence of research and makings at your workspace in studio
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