Of course, this is among the million edits a project must go through.
Last Wednesday, I talked to Blair for five minutes, and refocused my lobby on the second floor, where both rectangular prisms of theatres meet.
Today, I talked to Doug, whom agrees with this shift.
Then I realized I completely misinterpreted his interpretation of my original conceptual rendering. He said "open," not exterior, not "open to the sky!"
I proposed a shading device. A translucent, triangular shade which blocks the sun by day, and "becomes the sun" at night...becoming this glowing light above the giant space my building creates.
Although it is probably highly unlikely I will use this idea, I still like it. Not only does it have a resemblance to my earlier project (Project 2, the concession stand), but it has two (or three-- if decoration counts) functions: shade, artificial light.
Either way, the next step is to understand further the circulation of the theatre, and enclose it in glass.
Doug also suggested it could be a sorts of Guggenheim museum narrative: starting from the top to circulate back down. I don't like the idea at all, nor am I going to purpue it. I feel a movie theatre should be easy to read and not a nuissance. For godsakes, people just want to go to the movies, not manuever through an entire building! That's not the feature!
...even though the idea sounds romantic, flowing through a large, 70' space radiating, glowing with light. Romantic, but not entirely practical.
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