Exhibit! 2010 Architecture & Built Enviornment: Reflecting Multidisciplinarity

University of Nottingham: End of Year Exhibition bay 3.6 x 2.4m

Department of Architecture and Built Environment

Faculty of Engineering

University Park Campus

Nottingham

NG7 2RD

UK

http://www.exhibitnottingham.com/

The Invisible Theatre

This project is intended to raise the underachieving consciousness in everyday life. The consciousness of a person to their surroundings heightens dramatically when there is the existence of an audience. Through experiencing a place just as the performer, the audience discovers details of this place that were not revealed before; even if he/she is passing by every day. Performers’ stories are not so far away from our own stories and emotions, and are not so far away from our own experiences. Set in the Lace Market in Nottingham, the study envisages tunnels of peeps that perform multiple functions:

1. The invisible theatre is a continuation from the Nottingham Contemporary, acting as an important promenade that embraces the passers-by into the experience of performance. Through the language of thresholds originating from door transformations, the tight fit of anticipated threshold, shifting threshold, and delayed threshold together with the notion of peeping create the catalyst for contemporary performance. Framed openings in the building come into play when people walk up to them and “perform”.

2. The invisible theatre inhabits a dance school with two studios, a laboratory of movement and the secret theatre. The transformation begins as dance studios undergo the shift in function; the theatre unfolds itself into the landscape and expands its boundaries from hidden places to the streets. Performances question the ideas of what and where is the stage. The experience starts from concealing and its opposite and all the in-betweens.

3. The open access penetrating the theatre also serves as a circuit in a city with a strong acoustic experience of leaving the outside world behind and entering a building. The involvement pushes the act of observation and questioning. Everyday gestures have high value in movements. The tunnel of peep is layered with dense overlapping. Flexibility in structure allows spaces to flow into and out of each other. The inside and outside are directly spoken to.

The theory of the audience as performers is tested in the context of Nottingham.

Poetic Tectonics Axonometric

Studio Block One Construction Section Environmental Design and Structural Strategy

The design consists of four main structures. The studio one block, studio two block, the corridor structure and the laboratory of movement. Strong thresholds are created as people enter and leave the previous world behind. Acoustically, the room within a room structure with built in ventilation tunnel creates a sound tight environment while having natural ventilation as a possible option. Light flood in and out subtly through the translucent concrete framed windows creates a theatrical atmosphere. Structurally, the dance studio and outside corridor is connected with isolation joints. The latter connects with the existing tram track, magnifying the difference in experience within the building.

Long Section

The drawing explores the inside outside space arrangement which transforms passersby to audience and then to performers. Points in space push the act of observation and questioning with the change in levels.

The Invisible Theatre Model

1/F Plan

The drawing explores the narrative of peeping in the context of site. The geometry articulates the space like expansion and contraction in dance with the contemporary life as the backdrop.

G/F plan

The drawing explores the narrative of peeping in the context of site. The tight fit of inside and outside space execute the idea of concealing and its opposite and all the in-betweens. The promenade celebrates performances as everyday events.

Final Design in Progress

Sectional Study of Linkages

Spatial relationship study

The Tunnel of Peeping

Everyday gestures have high value in movements. The tunnel of peep is layered with dense overlapping. Flexibility in structure allows spaces to flow into and out. Peeping from the inside practice space to the outside, vice versa, offers the possibility of involvement and push the act of observation and questioning. Poins in space marks the rhythm and splitting of flows. The inside and outside is then directly spoken to.



























The laboratory of Movement

Boundaries are stretched with the openness of raised platform with slits revealing the footwork of dancers. The openness act as a peep to the sky, freeing movements to reach as far as one can. The peep show to the pavements below notates how dance could be unpredictable, unlikely and continous.

Site Articulation

Red: Stage
Blue: Peeping
Yellow: Audience space

The 5 Key Ideas

The Notion of Peeping

Peeping from outside to inside, from inside to outside sometimes filtrates observation and sometimes it reveals itself. Accidental peeping and intentional peeping manifest the departure point of performance.



























The Anticipated Threshold


The phenomenon of entrances changes gradually. With the combination of architectural elements, boundaries are drawn by a nonlinear threshold, creating the entrance to a city, a district or a building. Threshold space is what determines the shifting areas, the boundary we cross to leave the outside world behind and entering a building. In the daytime "The aniticipated threshold" acts as a celebration of entering; at night it marks the entrance to the invisible theater.

The Expand and Contract of Hidden Spaces

Spaces that hide expand into a theater at night and contract back to the base in the day. The experience starts from hiding and its opposite and all the in-betweens.


























The Shifting Threshold

The kinetic event of movements of boundaries transforms continuously, thus the threshold.


























The Delayed Threshold


You might think you actually enter the plane at its door, but in fact it is possible never to be in the open air at the point of boarding. The delayed threshold captures actions which follow with reaction time to the decision made.

The Invisible Theater

The project set forth a spatial model of the world, to give conscious order to naked space by claiming forgotten places in the Nottingham city through the spirit of performance. The language of threshold orginated from doors transforms. The tight fit of anticipated threshold, shifting threshold, delayed threshold together with the notion of peeping creates the catalyst for contemporary performance. "Cabins of invisible doors" inhabit a dance school and a lab for movement. The transformation begins as sun sets. The invisible theater unfolds itself into the landscape and expands its boundaries from hidden places to the streets.

The Search in Door City

The study of Peeping

The study of threshold with lines and space

"One of the most important systems of the house is that of entering and leaving." The study of doors in earlier projects explored the possibilities of thresholds.

The Walk

Consciousness in experience makes it distinct and it's only with consciousness in dwelling claims it's meaning. Taking Heidegger's notion of dwelling into account, the project aims at bringing the element of conscious dwelling claiming forgotten spaces like back lanes or unutilized open areas in Nottingham.

People who dance know that the hardest movement is walking. Pina Baush once said that "Watching how people walk on streets is far more important then watching a performance." In the experience of walking, we travel through spaces by means of doors. Door is a medium in which study of threshold could be carried out. How a person go from outside to inside, from street to a restaurant, to a library, to a cinema, to shopping malls, to a hospital, to a school all differs. The journey is further branches out into the experiment of search. "The search in Door City" originated from "Scars and Framgments" that reveals the deflection, the habit and the past.

The Search of Blue

Before the Search of Blue

Peeping with concealment, the old habits collapse and the person is about to go forth with locks unlocked.

The Search of Blue

Memories come and go. The search process is visualized by searching of lost element in the Nottingham City. The zoom-in of fragmentations hint on the path leading to the "blue"; giving us the comfort of progress withtout guarantee. Zooming-out reveals the actual quickest path, eliminating details. The video explores possibilities in peeping through doors, opening doors, passing doors, transparency of doors, panning of vision with doors, moving with doors; ultimately the threshold of doors.

special thanks to Kennis as the girl with the yellow balloon.

The Deflected Minutes : The Suitcase Capture

From clay samples, the scars and fragments are overlaid emphasising on how the reaction force constain among themselves to the world they inhabit. Fragmentation could be philosophical, systematic.

collaborated with teamates Nimesh, Mary and Vincent.

Zoom in & Inquire

The Deflected Minutes: Zoom in & Inquire.

The video unfolds the habits of the student by scars and fragments accumulated on surfaces imitated by clay. Deflections reveals choices, actions, habits and stories. In three chapters of dffierent attempt, intensity in concentration heights.

What if...

we have never existed there.

collaborated with teammates Nimesh, Mary and Vincent.

Scars and Fragments study in a student hall, Nottingham.

The deflection of materials.
The reveal of habits in Nottingham students.

collaborated with teammates Nimesh, Mary and Vincent.