Theatre of A Reflection

Spaces shape the actions and behaviors of every individual and in every perspective of scale.

People tend to believe that they make their own decisions. Yet, most of the time, our choices are determined by outside factors rather than ourselves. The urban context and traffic affect our daily commuting routes so severely that we only contribute a margin of our decisions. Nonetheless, we never notice that spaces play an enormous role in our day-to-day lives as the idiom routine numbs our senses as we repeatedly go through the same daily paths. My design is a reminder that reality is a result shaped by every slightest event and encourages people to recall the event that shapes their present life.

The site sits on the city's edge, adjacent to the NanShan public cemetery, and is connected by the Zhuxi river. The commuting traffic is the idiom routine. From the view of the city side, the site sits at the end of the road and splits traffic flow into two, interpreted as the event that forms our present life.

Chapter 1 : Entrance orridor

The entrance corridor is an arch-shaped pathway between two high walls with a limited view of the sky and the trees' branches. Therefore, the participants' senses are removed as they walk down the path.

The lobby is a simple rectangular space, and the circulation is a straight line penetrating the hall where the vertical circulation sits at the end. Despite the unambiguous indication, the light wells on the roof create an arrayed square to suggest other ways to experience the space.

the corridor around the theater opens toward the extended axis of Nan-man Rd, facing the nature of the upper reach of the Zhuxi river. The sound and view of nature enter the participants through the originally taken sense

4 -- Exit

as the participants leave the theatre, the route guides them to the top of the building. Two juxtaposed walls sitting at the extension of the Nan-men Road axis direct them to go through the light well that created the arrayed light in the lobby, where they will be able to observe how the space affects actions and activities. Thus, encourage the participants to recall how their actions were shaped when they entered the building.