Lights, Camera...Action - A Production Notebook Ladanyi, Chris Student projects Architectural education Film stills Motion pictures Montages Photomontages School of Architecture 5th year final project publication By applying and integrating select cinematic technique to architecture, the result is a unique and satisfying transformation of space and circulation, creating an inspiring and diverse perception of a sequence of scenic, dramatic, historic and stimulating urban landscapes. Using a montage effect of varying visual impacts generates a dramatic synergistic interplay between visitor and a coordinated set of installations. The capacity to inform and motivate a viewer, as he transforms his own experience by reacting to and guiding his course of movement through multiple migration opportunities, is inherent in the environment’s design and layout. These architectural focal points will encourage and direct a participant, shaped by his own interests, inclinations and predispositions, to create an individualized understanding of a series of synchronized network sites, juxtaposed to their diverse multi-dimensional settings, and their per-formative effects. Drawing on the art of film montage, underlying much of cinema’s visual power and visceral sensuality, the architect applies montage theory and related cinematic manipulations to crystallize new connections between site and context at each installation. Then cumulatively, between associated network nodes, the viewer is drawn toward and away from particular locations and on to related areas, governed by his own pace and course development, and affiliation with settings and their effect. A visitor emerges with a visual journey of specific regions, building on their interplay with each other and surrounding vistas, ideally forming an admiration of the power of space and contrast evoked by insightful design, and enhanced by the viewer’s ability to direct perceived relationships, inspiring interactions with position and environment. Each Governors Island installation, and the varying courses of travel amongst them, is a director’s predicate “Shot A,” setting context, foundation, and anticipation for cuts to “Shot B,” provided by the limitless possibilities of New York Harbor, framed by near and distant shorelines and bridges, against the multifaceted backdrops of lower Manhattan, the Brooklyn waterfront, Liberty and Ellis Islands, and the distant shores of New Jersey and Staten Island. The result, a cinematically visual experience adding dimension to this historic and dramatic scenery by innovative and un-obstructive architecture, tests and expands traditional notions of urban tourism and historic preservation, appreciation and enhancement, by means of multi-disciplined structural design and integration. School of Architecture. (Troy NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2008) Parsons, Peter. Faculty advisor Krueger, Ted. Faculty advisor Ellinger, Jefferson. Advisor Nishimura, Jake. Advisor 2008-12 Digital images Pdfs. Adobe Acrobat 8 Electronic thesis: Bachelor of Architecture 5th year final project English 21st century New York, USA This electronic version of a B-Arch final project is a licensed copy owned by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Copyright of the original work is retained by the author.
Lights, Camera...Action - A Production Notebook
Ladanyi, Chris
Student projects
Architectural education
Film stills
Motion pictures
Montages
Photomontages
School of Architecture 5th year final project publication
By applying and integrating select cinematic technique to architecture, the result is a unique and satisfying transformation of space and circulation, creating an inspiring and diverse perception of a sequence of scenic, dramatic, historic and stimulating urban landscapes. Using a montage effect of varying visual impacts generates a dramatic synergistic interplay between visitor and a coordinated set of installations. The capacity to inform and motivate a viewer, as he transforms his own experience by reacting to and guiding his course of movement through multiple migration opportunities, is inherent in the environment’s design and layout. These architectural focal points will encourage and direct a participant, shaped by his own interests, inclinations and predispositions, to create an individualized understanding of a series of synchronized network sites, juxtaposed to their diverse multi-dimensional settings, and their per-formative effects. Drawing on the art of film montage, underlying much of cinema’s visual power and visceral sensuality, the architect applies montage theory and related cinematic manipulations to crystallize new connections between site and context at each installation. Then cumulatively, between associated network nodes, the viewer is drawn toward and away from particular locations and on to related areas, governed by his own pace and course development, and affiliation with settings and their effect. A visitor emerges with a visual journey of specific regions, building on their interplay with each other and surrounding vistas, ideally forming an admiration of the power of space and contrast evoked by insightful design, and enhanced by the viewer’s ability to direct perceived relationships, inspiring interactions with position and environment. Each Governors Island installation, and the varying courses of travel amongst them, is a director’s predicate “Shot A,” setting context, foundation, and anticipation for cuts to “Shot B,” provided by the limitless possibilities of New York Harbor, framed by near and distant shorelines and bridges, against the multifaceted backdrops of lower Manhattan, the Brooklyn waterfront, Liberty and Ellis Islands, and the distant shores of New Jersey and Staten Island. The result, a cinematically visual experience adding dimension to this historic and dramatic scenery by innovative and un-obstructive architecture, tests and expands traditional notions of urban tourism and historic preservation, appreciation and enhancement, by means of multi-disciplined structural design and integration.
School of Architecture. (Troy NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2008)
Parsons, Peter. Faculty advisor
Krueger, Ted. Faculty advisor
Ellinger, Jefferson. Advisor
Nishimura, Jake. Advisor
2008-12
Digital images
Pdfs. Adobe Acrobat 8
Electronic thesis: Bachelor of Architecture 5th year final project
English
21st century
New York, USA
This electronic version of a B-Arch final project is a licensed copy owned by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Copyright of the original work is retained by the author.