Group notes from Mark




24th July

...On Friday I expect you to have completed the research and by Monday be able to present to the team what you have learned from this process and have completed the models. You will have the opportunity of going in greater detail of research later in your individual projects.
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As I have mentioned before, out of the conversations about the site/history/building type etc and the themes explored in the brief - and indeed in today’s video on Carlo Scarpa – should come the soul of your project. In other words what your project is about beyond being about the re-use of a building and a theatre. Your design concept will most likely come out of these explorations and could be a reflection of some of the themes discussed today, including, but certainly not limited to, the following:
·         The nature of materials (choice of main material and its exploration)
·         The coupling of opposites (precious/humble; pure/impure; light/shadow; container/contained and so on…)
·         Responding to fragments/ruins
·         New forms with old techniques or vernacular materials
·         The stage and staging (what is a stage?)
·         Physical fiction and representation in theatre (i.e. scenography)
·         The power of the detail – the human scale
·         The processional nature of theatre spaces
·         Architecture of all the senses (what does your building smell like?)
·         The process of renewal and the beauty of decay
·         Weather and weathering (harnessing nature as designer-in-chief)
·         The dialectics between performers and audience (what if there are no boundaries?)
·         Insertion and detachment (of materials, spaces, volumes, people…)
·         Absence and presence (how to represent physical and emotional loss or void)
·         Virtual theatre and real performance (connective possibilities)

...Your project will, however, need to explore memory and identity as this is the theme of this studio; it will also have to work with the existing context. ...
Below is the schedule for seeing you individually on Friday....
1
13:00
Lydia Liu

2
13:10
Grace Leung

3
13:20
Zhengbang Liu

4
13:30
Zhentiao Lin

5
13:40
Ted Shieh

6
13:50
Eugene Fong

7
14:00
Thomas Lau

8
14:10
Angela Watkinson

9
14:20
Zee Shake Lee

10
14:30
Patricia Balbos

11
14:40
Tegan Barry

12
14:50
Roxanne Bottom

13
15:00
Kate McBurney

14
15:10
Irinia Sizova

15
15:20
Matt ?

16
15:30
Hazman Fehmi

17
15:40
Jaron Wong

18
15:50
Dimitar Penchev

19
16:00
Dylan French

20
16:10
Matias Sander

21
16:20
Tim Stevenson

16:30
Group Discussion


Regards,
Mark Cannata, MA, RIBA

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