Week 6: Layout Exploration

This week I began work on possible plan layouts for the installation curtain in Fort Lane. I started with drawing multiple initial ideas I’ve had, exploring organic lines and shapes as well as the movement of public through different arrangements and numbers of curtains as well as arch perforations to help with flow of movement. Below are some initial ideas I began with. These plan views are orientated with Imperial lane to the left of the layout, with the black lines being the curtains, dotted lines the perforated archways, and red line the movement of people in the space.

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After exploring some different layout ideas through drawing I decided that I didn’t like the idea of more than two curtains (Plans 3 and 5). I quite like the space that plan 2 creates and the movement (isn’t too chaotic but slows the public) but I’m not sure about using only one curtain. I feel like the experience of someone walking down the lane it will create will make the lane seem blocked and inaccessible. I want the installation to be an inviting space for people.

While sketching these ideas, I began to think about the use of the space I was creating. I’ve been thinking about holding different creative events in and around the installation, including the performing arts, but while designing the layout I thought that I could possibly create a space with the curtains for some of these events to take place, like a theater. This is why I think I’m going to use the idea of layout and movement created in plan 4.

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My installation design is an articulation of performance through materiality, movement, and form. This idea of moving the curtains from one state to the next creates a performance within itself and articulates the materiality, movement and form of the design in an effective way. This space can be used in the evenings for film viewings, dance performances, theatrical shows, or concerts. I like this idea of altering the space because it plays on the idea of behind-the-scenes work nd what is displayed in a film frame; using the same site and same location, the design is moved, altered, and shifted to create a different space and different experience for the occupant/viewer.