Events- The Turning Points: Mixed media arts centre

Abstract

Architecture is reflective of the social conditions of a time. In the ever changing dynamic flux of the built environment, architecture needs to address response to a dynamic culture. The end users yearn for 'change' and monotony in architecture dejects the clientele. As the architecture creates the stage, the event choreographs the movement on it. Had it not been for the event, the building will wither, changing ultimately into a ruin. It is upon architecture to create conditions that evoke new events. However in recreational facilities where the sole purpose is enjoyment, reoccurrence of the same event yields boredom and render the building obsolete over the course of time. Architecture hinges on 'event' for survival. In the permanence of this setup, change is required to ignite interest. Ephemeral events that engages users, is the blatant solution to this stagnation. In the prevailing trend of development along modern lines, there is a need for 'urban shock' to rejuvenate the essence of spaces. The thesis aims to study the relation between space and event by creating mutable and flexible spaces in a mixed media arts center. The program initself is a collaboration of different mediums, accentuating the original idea of 'combination of differences' and acting as a metaphor for it. Exploring the ways in which different mediums can come together to give birth to something new. Each iteration is unique in itself and new combinations are explored every time It is an exploration of 'event' being defined as the place of combination of differences. Permeability, juxtaposition, partial hierarchy: elements inferred from our traditional public spaces such as street, chaupal and markaz will be explored in designing the negative spaces in the building.