Abstract:
The extremities of time relates explicitly to film as
films are all about capturing time, documenting
time, storing time, preserving time and engaging
with time. The extremities of the present time are
represented by the past and the future. Films
have a unique way of connecting to the viewer
by drawing them into the setting of the film on
a subconscious level. This statement is related
to technology, time travel and the archiving of
film. Analogies of technology informs my design
intervention in the film archive by exploring how
the past can shape the future, how the future
can preserve the integrity of the past and how
we move between these two characters.
Architecture is fashioned by technology
which bombards us with stimuli everyday. And
everywhere we go we are exposed to technology
on some level, so how do we re-claim harmony
and humanize architecture in this rapidly
developing digitally enhanced information age?
Technology affects every aspect of the designer’s
work flow, so as designers for the future we should
embrace technology and exploit its qualities
to generate innovative 3-dimensional ideas,
which can be easily conceived and generate
architectural form.
By using the analogy of a hard drive to inform
the holistic intervention this helps to compose
the spatial relationships and generate form
and function of the holistic tectonic. The three
main characters of the intervention being
the concentric circles of the library where
information is stored permanently, the theatre
which projects information temporarily and the
vertical circulation which acts as a threshold
and a mediator between the past time and
the future time. The still images library acts as a
counter balance between the moving images
theatre. The threshold of the vertical circulation
between the conscious and sub-conscious acts
as a datum line and a transition zone where the
inhabitant is in a state of flux between still and
moving, conscious and sub-conscious, light and
shadow, permanent and temporary.
