TRACK, AND FIELD
Track, and Field proposes a performing arts venue on a corner plot. Comprising two theatres, connected by an operable void, the building is made animate through the transfer of scenic flats between stages, activating the performance of the street.
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A structural frame underpins the project, translating between the site’s curvature and the operable track, the connecting sinew, simultaneously generating an asymmetric interior field. Encompassing a Brechtian model of theatre, the project allows the depth of these interior fields to register on the exterior through the facade’s controlled translucency.
Growing from an edge, the facade becomes occupiable as it moves around the building, a billboard to the street. Cascading on the inner face, the massing steps down to form an amphitheatric courtyard. Collapsing man to eye, and eye to point Track, and Field questions flatness and image, positioning buildings as an act of theatre.
TRACK, AND FIELD
Track, and Field proposes a performing arts venue on a corner plot. Comprising two theatres, connected by an operable void, the building is made animate through the transfer of scenic flats between stages, activating the performance of the street.
A structural frame underpins the project, translating between the site’s curvature and the operable track, the connecting sinew, simultaneously generating an asymmetric interior field. Encompassing a Brechtian model of theatre, the project allows the depth of these interior fields to register on the exterior through the facade’s controlled translucency.
Growing from an edge, the facade becomes occupiable as it moves around the building, a billboard to the street. Cascading on the inner face, the massing steps down to form an amphitheatric courtyard. Collapsing man to eye, and eye to point Track, and Field questions flatness and image, positioning buildings as an act of theatre.
