Music, Dance and Visual Culture: the performance hall of the future Mistur and Cabrinha's Design Development Studio, Fall 2007 Kiyono, Satoshi Zellner, Karen Student project Concert halls Cultural centers Forums This project was based on a competition entry by Toyo Ito for the Music, Dance & Visual Culture located in Ghent, Belgium. This "performance hall of the future" is intended to become a cultural and communal gathering space, thus called "the Forum." The program defines a need for a modular hall enveloped within a shell that would mediate between the interior and the urban surroundings of the site. The exterior volume is an extrusion of the site that is encased within a facade that accomplishes a negotiation of activities of the interior and exterior by selectively employing the transparent and reflective properties of glass. The glass facade, a veil slipped over concrete forms that divide the spaces into specific programs, further aids in creating the experiential qualities in relation to the continuous surface. Structural double surface geometry of this concrete form creates a continuous load path ultimately providing the desired interior spaces. The continuous concrete surface provides an ideal way for circulation to happen in an unbroken, flowing way between multiple levels, spaces and voids. The resulting layering of the spaces begins to allow for control over interior lighting in relation to the specific needs of the programs. There were many opportunities to fully take advantage of this scheme by incorporating issues of the required systems, structure, acoustics, HVAC, and sustainable elements are possible due to the formal strategy presented by Ito that architectural form is integrated with all issues necessary to develop a structure. The ultimate goal was to maintain this simple system with minimal components of this concrete mass and minimal glass enclosure as a way to sustain as many spatial features."Where there's an ambiguity between the inside and outside, and that inside/ outside dichotomy is blurred, that's what I'm interested in." (Toyo Ito) School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007) Mistur, Mark. Faculty advisor Cabrinha, Mark. Faculty advisor 2007 Digital images JPEG2000 21st century Ghent, Belgium Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Music, Dance and Visual Culture: the performance hall of the future
Mistur and Cabrinha's Design Development Studio, Fall 2007
Kiyono, Satoshi
Zellner, Karen
Student project
Concert halls
Cultural centers
Forums
This project was based on a competition entry by Toyo Ito for the Music, Dance & Visual Culture located in Ghent, Belgium. This "performance hall of the future" is intended to become a cultural and communal gathering space, thus called "the Forum." The program defines a need for a modular hall enveloped within a shell that would mediate between the interior and the urban surroundings of the site. The exterior volume is an extrusion of the site that is encased within a facade that accomplishes a negotiation of activities of the interior and exterior by selectively employing the transparent and reflective properties of glass. The glass facade, a veil slipped over concrete forms that divide the spaces into specific programs, further aids in creating the experiential qualities in relation to the continuous surface. Structural double surface geometry of this concrete form creates a continuous load path ultimately providing the desired interior spaces. The continuous concrete surface provides an ideal way for circulation to happen in an unbroken, flowing way between multiple levels, spaces and voids. The resulting layering of the spaces begins to allow for control over interior lighting in relation to the specific needs of the programs. There were many opportunities to fully take advantage of this scheme by incorporating issues of the required systems, structure, acoustics, HVAC, and sustainable elements are possible due to the formal strategy presented by Ito that architectural form is integrated with all issues necessary to develop a structure. The ultimate goal was to maintain this simple system with minimal components of this concrete mass and minimal glass enclosure as a way to sustain as many spatial features."Where there's an ambiguity between the inside and outside, and that inside/ outside dichotomy is blurred, that's what I'm interested in." (Toyo Ito)
School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007)
Mistur, Mark. Faculty advisor
Cabrinha, Mark. Faculty advisor
2007
Digital images
JPEG2000
21st century
Ghent, Belgium
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY