Untitled 2019 - Theatre

BDES3027

Tutor: Nicholas Elias Name: Lily Huang SID: 470390951

Fig. 1 - Joseph Paxton, Park at Birkenhead (1847)

“In the woods, we return to reason and faith.

There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, —no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair.

Standing on the bare ground, —my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, —all mean egotism vanishes.”

—— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Nature

SITE

Site: Built & Nature 1:2000

Utzon’s exploration of modularity in human scales is reflected in the Zßrich Theatre, which also becomes one focus of the scheme during the design process. While struggling to generate ideal sizes of different modules for the scheme, a simplistic grid is established, by extending boundaries of surrounding buildings at the site.

Grid Extracted from Context 1:2000

Overlapping v simplified with further modification

Overlapping with both straight and titled elements

Further Developed Ideas from Grid Mapping for Finalised proposal 1:1000

Entry to Ground Level

Path towards Lower Level

Path towards Upper Level Viewing platform

Outdoor Cafe/Bar

Entry to Lower Level

Path towards Ground Level

Path towards Ground Level/ Staff Entry

Revised Roof Plan @1:200

Entry to Ground Level

Path towards Lower Level

Path towards Upper Level Viewing platform Upper Level Viewing platform

Outdoor Theatre (Sheltered)

Outdoor Cafe/Bar

Entry to Lower Level

Path towards Ground Level

Path towards Ground Level/ Staff Entry

Revised Top Level Plan @1:200

Entry to Ground Level

Path towards Upper Level Viewing platform

Path towards Lower Level

Kitchen

Backstage Room / Storage

Bookstore/ Library

Toilets

Bookstore Cashier Ticket Office Indoor Bar

Outdoor Theatre (Half Sheltered)

Outdoor Cafe/Bar

Entry to Lower Level

Path towards Ground Level

Path towards Ground Level/ Staff Entry

Revised Ground Level Plan @1:200

Staff Lunch/ Meeting Room

Path towards Lower Level

Info Desk

Toilet

Lower Ground Exhibition Space

Event Space Can be rearranged as another small theatre Storage

Entry to Lower Level Space can be rearranged as a second outdoor stage

Revised Underground Level Plan @1:200

Long W Section @1:200

N Section @1:200

Paraline Drawing

Not to Scale

Stairs seen through arches from underground level

Between Stairs and Arches

Detailed Model for Final Presentation 1:50 Boxboard, Gel Pen, Water Colour

*Diagram not to scale

Top View

1:200 Model Balsa, Boxboard, Chinese Paper, Cork, Dried Flowers

East Elevation

1:200 Model Balsa, Boxboard, Chinese Paper, Cork, Dried Flowers

Precedents

Paxton, Joseph. Crystal Palace. London, UK. 1851-1936.

Barnet, James. Garden Palace. Sydney, NSW, Australia. 1879-1882.

Wright, Frank Lloyd. Xanadu Gallery, V. C. Morris Gift Shop. San Francisco, California, USA. 1948.

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig. Farnsworth House. Plano, Illinois, USA. 1951.

Utzon, Jørn. Zürich Theatre (Unrealised). 1964.

Kahn, Louis. Kimbell Art Museum. Forth Worth, Texas, USA. 1972.

Foster + Partners. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. Norwich, UK. 1978.

Eisenman Architects. Church of the Year 2000. Rome, Italy. 1996.

RPBW Architects (Renzo Piano Building Workshop). Zentrum Paul Klee. Bern, Switzerland. 1998.

Ando, Tadao. Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art. Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. 2002.

Campo Baeza, Alberto. Between Cathedrals. Cadiz, Spain. 2009.

Nishizawa, Ryue. Hiroshi Senju Museum Karuizawa. Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. 2011.

SANAA. Home for All. Tsukihama, Miyatojima, Japan. 2014.