The Industrial Theater THEATER IN THE ROUND The strength of the existing structure’s design is in its central courtyard. The existing courtyard is kept empty so that each wing of the building is able to temporarily take over the center. The courtyard acts as a “stage”; it is an empty vessel for an infinite variety of functions. Our design chooses to superimpose this stage with all of the mechanical components that would be found in a theater: rigging, some operable walls, a hoist, and places from which to view the activity. The new program, which involves design and drafting, is suspended above the old program, which involves fabrication.
A SYNTACTIC SYSTEM OF SUPERIMPOSITION
Each main building element, a truss, a roof, a room, a catwalk, is broken down into units which can be prefabricated and then transported to the site.
ABSTRACT: The economic viability of precast concrete is incumbent upon the reuse of moulds, and hence, the use of repetition in building design.
The rules which govern the repetition of these units create a syntactic framework which can be applied to any existing building;
New projects can be imagined and realized quickly when their main components are pre-fabricated and then reticulated in new ways.
Each unit is designed so that it can be connected (through post-tensioning)laterally to another unit of the same type, or to the larger skeletal framework which supports it.
Our team views this repetition as the basis for a sophisticated, yet simple modular framework through which a new symbiotic program can superimpose and enhance existing structures and the day-to-day activities housed inside them.
DRAFTING STUDIO
TEXTILE STUDIO
ARCHIVES, OFFICES, AND W.C.
TO PARKING GARAGE
LECTURE HALLS
3D PRINT AND LASER LAB
ENTRANCE LOBBY
40’-0”
40’-0”
40’-0”
WOOD, CONCRETE & METAL SHOPS
OPEN FABRICATION COURTYARD
40’-0”
SECTION 4 - FACING SOUTH
37’-0”
13’-7”
24’-9”
25’-0”
25’-0”
25’-0”
23’-0”
26’-2”
13’-7”
24’-9”
25’-0”
25’-0”
25’-0”
23’-0”
26’-2”
SECTION 3 - FACING SOUTH
SECTION D - FACING EAST
SECTION 2 - FACING SOUTH
SECTION C - FACING EAST
SECTION 1 - FACING SOUTH
SECTION B - FACING EAST
NORTH ELEVATION
SECTION A - FACING EAST
37’-0”
40’-0”
Ground Floor
A
B
C
D
40’-0”
E
40’-0”
40’-0”
Mezzanine
A
B
C
D
E
Upper Floor
A
B
C
D
E
DS Bldg. Access
10th St Structure Access
ADE 422: Spring 2018 Architectural Studio IV
Students: Zachary Bundy, Abel Clutter, Louis Medina Instructor: Elena Rocchi