The power of theatre is its ability to be supernaturally immersed within a performance. The source of power for this willing suspension of disbelief lies with the initiation of human interest. Some architects attempt to create a willing suspension of disbelief through the creation of computer-generated forms that exceed straightforward manifestations as buildings. However, these forms camouflage their failure to create a human interest. This thesis explores how architecture can create a willing suspension of disbelief that sparks a human interest and in turn triggers an imaginative experience.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Site Documentation
Site Location: Boston, MA
Description: The chosen site location sits on the edge of the theatre district at the corner of Washington St. and Ave De Lafayette. The site is currently being used as a parking lot across from the Boston Opera House.
Zoning
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| Institutional |
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| Commercial |
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| Industrial |
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| Residential Sun Study |
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| Plan: Equinox - 8am |
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| Perspective: Equinox- 8am |
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| Plan: Equinox-12pm |
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| Perspective: Equinox- 12pm |
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| Plan: Equinox 4pm |
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| Perspective: Equinox - 4pm |
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| Plan: Summer Solstice 8am |
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| Perspective: Summer Solstice 8am |
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| Plan: Summer Solstice 12pm |
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| Perspective: Summer Solstice 12pm |
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| Plan: Summer Solstice 4pm |
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| Perspective: Summer Solstice 4pm |
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| Plan: Winter Solstice 8am |
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| Perspective: Winter Solstice 8am |
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| Plan: Winter Solstice 12pm |
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| Perspective: Winter Solstice 12pm |
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| Plan: Winter Solstice 3pm |
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| Perspective: Winter Solstice 3pm |
Subway Lines
Theatre Locations
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Inspirational Quotes
" In this idea originated the plan of the 'Lyrical Ballads'; in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
"We Abolish the stage and the auditorium and replace them by a single site, without partition or barrier of any kind, which will become the theatre of the action. A direct communication will be reestablished between the spectator and the spectacle, between the the actor and the spectator, from the fact that the spectator, placed in the middle of the action, is engulfed and physically affected by it. This envelopment results, in part, from the very configuration of the room itself."
-Antonine Artaud, The Theatre and its Double
Monday, November 1, 2010
Thesis Statement: Revisited
Architecture, Theatre and the Willing Suspension of Disbelief
What is Theatre? Theatre is an event in which a performance takes place. This performance creates an inward nature of human interest or appearance of truth satisfactory enough to acquire a willingness from the audience to assimilate to a false reality. Conventional theatre relies on the coordinated aspect of the stage in order to separate the performer from the audience. This separation is a tool designed to aid the understanding of the satisfactory truth through translation of dramatic expression. However, modern theatre attempts to remove this intentional separation by engaging the audience directly with the performers and with the performance itself. This reconnection creates unexpected but intentional events to occur that enhance the suspension of reality. The intention of this thesis is to incorporate the ideas of theatre into the design of architecture whose own satisfactory truth creates a willing suspension of disbelief.
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