The project’s initiation began with the translation of the phrase, “The theatre in the round, the theatre in the ground”. The idea of the ‘theatre’ is that which is constantly changing especially as we continue to survive under a digitally dependent age. With an everchanging context physically and socially, a certain level of experimentation is called for in terms of performance, who is performing, and who and how does one view what is performed. The two precedents that further guided the formal conception of the project were that of the Fun Palace and the Museum of Fort Vetchen. The principles that I found the most significant were the manners in which they utilized distinct ordering systems whether this was a regulated grid and self-imposed such as that in the Fun Palace or organically derived by means of the existing topography such as that in Fort Vetchen. As a translation, the theatre uses the embedded organizations of the surrounding infrastructure, whether it is through the parking lots or through the embedded lines of the adjacent buildings, as a strategy to create a structure that engages with the larger context of the city and could potentially be multiplied. This is its GROUND. Further the transparent structure allows for the users and their flexible activities to be exhibited to that of the surrounding urban context allowing for the building itself to be the stage or the theatre in the ROUND.
SITE: border of Fort Point Channel & Seaport Channel Districts in South Boston
STRATEGY: Overtaking Parking
Plan 01
Plan 02
Plan 03
EXPERIENTIAL VIEWS
MODEL STUDIES
Concept Model
Concept Model
Concept Model
Materials and Grid Overlays Model
Final Model Structure
Final Model Structure
