ARCH-4980.2 | Jeremy Carvalho, Adjunct Professor

A DESIRE FOR COLOR AND MOVEMENT
Improved Educational Space

REBECCA EXLEY

This is an exploration about an adaptable system that generates immersive performance spaces with the ability to morph and change based on the user or performer inputs, or on preprogrammed configurations that correspond to the performance.

Through the use of this kit of parts, which move and interact together in different ways, multiple types of spaces, with unexpected experiential and emotional qualities, can be created.  The various components are designed based off of the scissor like system developed by Chuck Hoberman to be highly expandable and retractable.  These components are easily transported when retracted as well as adept at rapid expanding deployment in a number of different types of sites.  Their versatility allows them to remain inactive in a site until the performance begins or until they are individually activated, or may be rapidly deployed in a location creating an unexpectable performance.  They are designed to be capable of functioning in small independent clusters, singularly or as a series of fragments within a larger urban-like context, as well as be effectively combined to create a single extensive event in one location.

Through the uses of movement, expansion, metamorphosis, projections, and interactions, this project creates a sense of entertainment and wonderment with an ease of accessibility and deployment not currently achievable by traditional performance environments.