NETWORKING INTENSIFICATION

Synopsis

In China festivals and celebrations often happen on street level, allowing people from the surrounding suburbs to filter in and create a stage for performance within an urban landscape.

The thesis will challenge the nomadic formation of these ‘cultural event’ streets, incorporating the ideas of the work/live connection. By creating a series of interconnected structural clusters in which space flows freely, unbroken and undivided, they will form into a series of atmospheric spaces of which will contain a main outdoor auditorium alongside smaller performance spaces and practicing rooms with an array of dwellings which feed from these spaces.

Density distribution is a method that will be used to provide an organisational and formal strategy, where the relationship between the distribution of people and the event spaces are formed in a way that the larger public performances will have a higher density of people which will account for bigger spaces, with more permeability through and the smaller practicing rooms and dwellings would have a lower density of people creating an more enclosed space.

This will develop into investigations into the flexibility and manipulation of materiality to accommodate such variations. A networked system consisting of nodal points and connectors, will allow spaces to be formed and the methods for implementing this strategy will be controlled by certain parameters, which are the height of the nodal points, the flexibility of the material at the nodal points, and the proportion of the perforations, which allows movement through the individual spaces.