︎inOUTinBETWEEN
fall 2015
What do you mean by ‘liminal space’?
The
discontinuity of existing forms and entrances made for a complicated,
convoluted, confused interior flow within the existing theatre school lobby.
A minimal
adaptation for fundamental overhaul of movement within; a new skin to blend the barriers between inside and outside, to
create distinct spaces, and to facilitate links, all from the manipulation of
one folded and cut surface that bends, inverts, and overlaps itself.
The skin wraps
around the existing volumes, linking them, but divided by a strip of glass
where they meet.
It indents or
pulls away to reveal points of entry, and breaks its continuity to allow for
moments of ascension or divisions of space.
These movements brings visitors from one space to the next, along an
ascent into the main theatre, or up and down from one side of the buildings
site to the other.
Interaction with
the new skin along the cantilevered paths externalizes as well as internalizes
experience.
The skin dynamic
fluctuates between inside and outside, both in its physical movements and its
visual links.
A grid of
mullions expresses the geometries of the folded screen, where scales open in
varying conglomerations and degrees; perforations radiate along the skin like a
heatmap of internal movement, responding to programs and people and revealing
views.
The lobby is transformed into a space of
theatrics itself through varying platforms, overlooks, pathways and
perspectives. A new skin, a subtle
hierarchy of space, blurs the defining of the lobby as interior, external to,
or somewhere in-between; underneath, alongside, within but without, lost in the
liminal folds.
> in collaboration with Cindy Santamaria
