Journey the Maze, Renovation
Lincoln Center Avery Fisher Hall, New York. USA, Fall 2009
Instructor: Julie Beckman
This project is to design an event-performance intervention that will comprise a renovation to the dual lobbies of Avery Fisher Hall in New York City’s Lincoln Center. One lobby is the main interior lobby of the hall itself while the other ‘lobby’ is the exterior plaza outside the south entrance. Both public space lobbies -- as well as the glass exterior wall between them -- will be renovated in order to provide facilities for events such as concerts, outdoor dance classes, and nightclub evenings. A re-appropriation of the lobby space itself as well as to its associated action - to lobby - will be required in order to design an event-performance intervention. A set of temporal, provisional, and changing (seasonal, day/ night, etc.) event scenarios will constitute the project’s ‘program’. The notion of an architectural program will be critically analyzed by the event-performance spatial model.
The actions and events that will occur in public spaces can play a critical role in the design of the spaces themselves. The event-performance spatial model raises questions about the relationship between the physical matter that architecture is made of (walls, floors, doors, etc.) and the temporal events that occur within it. How can events that are transformable over time shape the resolute forms and spaces of arthiecture? What constitutes the relationship between the two forms of architecrural performance? How does the architectural diagram enage with the dynamics of event-performance? How can active programming engage with a design process and the production of space?
These two bays of the vertical open space in the Avery Fisher Hall is dissected and re-organized vertically. Each separated space is connected by vertical passages with specific programs such as indoor climbing and ziplining, and also horizontally linked with sky bridge. While existing programs is mostly horizontally activated with static event like a concert, newly added vertical maze in the lobby space is filled with dynamic activities.
Lincoln Center Avery Fisher Hall, New York. USA, Fall 2009
Instructor: Julie Beckman
This project is to design an event-performance intervention that will comprise a renovation to the dual lobbies of Avery Fisher Hall in New York City’s Lincoln Center. One lobby is the main interior lobby of the hall itself while the other ‘lobby’ is the exterior plaza outside the south entrance. Both public space lobbies -- as well as the glass exterior wall between them -- will be renovated in order to provide facilities for events such as concerts, outdoor dance classes, and nightclub evenings. A re-appropriation of the lobby space itself as well as to its associated action - to lobby - will be required in order to design an event-performance intervention. A set of temporal, provisional, and changing (seasonal, day/ night, etc.) event scenarios will constitute the project’s ‘program’. The notion of an architectural program will be critically analyzed by the event-performance spatial model.
The actions and events that will occur in public spaces can play a critical role in the design of the spaces themselves. The event-performance spatial model raises questions about the relationship between the physical matter that architecture is made of (walls, floors, doors, etc.) and the temporal events that occur within it. How can events that are transformable over time shape the resolute forms and spaces of arthiecture? What constitutes the relationship between the two forms of architecrural performance? How does the architectural diagram enage with the dynamics of event-performance? How can active programming engage with a design process and the production of space?
These two bays of the vertical open space in the Avery Fisher Hall is dissected and re-organized vertically. Each separated space is connected by vertical passages with specific programs such as indoor climbing and ziplining, and also horizontally linked with sky bridge. While existing programs is mostly horizontally activated with static event like a concert, newly added vertical maze in the lobby space is filled with dynamic activities.
Publication
research: scoping the scene
research: combination of notation (catalogue)
research: speculative encounters and collisions on lincoln center plaza
(north_avery fisher hall, south_david h. koch theater)
(north_avery fisher hall, south_david h. koch theater)
outdoor programs on lincoln center plaza
(right_avery fisher hall, left_david h. koch theater, above_the metropolitan opera)
(right_avery fisher hall, left_david h. koch theater, above_the metropolitan opera)
spatial flow (program) diagram in two bays terrace of avery fisher hall
diagram of renovation part of avery fisher hall for assembly
floor plans
sections
