Progress has been slow, somewhat thoughtful. And now, I am getting ahead of myself, needing to research many things:
- Open spaces, public spaces. How does an architect handle a roofless, open space yet still have proper shading + a overall "closed" look from the outside?
- Lighting & colour-- What is appropriate for a movie theatre? What type of lighting is available to use and exploit? What surfaces reflect the most light?
- Circulation and convenience-- in other words, does the circulation effect the placement of objects, or does the placement affect the circulation? How do people want to move in a movie theatre?
- Lastly, what's in the code? What can't I design, what are the measured limits embedded in a theatre?
I will partially address #2 with images:
The first, addressed colour and light directly-- how do you attract the attention from the outside to the inside?
^ Kunsthal (museum), Rotterdam/Netherlands, 1992 >> OMA
Then, the idea of threshold, through colour-- colour-coding the differences of spaces:
^ Second Stage Theatre, NY, 1999 >> OMA
^ Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK >> Norman Foster
Lastly, there is art in covering the sun:
^ Third London Airport, Stansted, UK >> Norman Foster
Norman Foster describes this airport as through he is looking through a shoji screen!:
"...a radical reinvention of the terminal as a building type, which has since become the model for future airports world-wide. One consequence is the opportunity to harness the benefits of natural light- both spiritually and technically. There are an infinite number of greys to choose from- and infinite variations on each one according to changes of light- both natural and artificial."
These pictures are mainly for inspiration, for vague direction, for thinking in matter of lighting, colour for threshold, greys for shading.
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