12/04/2020

PART I:
RECURSION 1:1 TRANSLATION FROM SCRIPT TO GEOMETRY IN A PHYSICAL ROOM

The geometry of a physical room is performed with the body, based on improvisational rules defined by the responses of different elements within the room. This choreographed dance is then recorded as a script, using Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation (EWMN). Inspired by the relative mathematical and geometric nature of the notation system, a movement language is designed to showcase spatial composition as well as affording rules for making new sets of geometries. These new geometries allow for the distortion of the original room; where it is performed, recorded, and transcribed in the same manner as above. This process of performance, recording, and transcription is repeated until the room is filled. 

PART II:
CHOREOGRAPHING AND IMPROVISING NEW GEOMETRY

As this process is repeated, the original room disappears, leaving the movement language script and their geometric translations as planes and surfaces. The movement language from the original room becomes a vocabulary for translating movement into form, allowing for opportunities in creating new geometries using choreographic techniques. This process becomes a playground for choreographing new forms based on this bank of movement vocabulary, as well as improvising designs that distort platonic geometry in unforeseen ways. These new geometric forms can be sequenced together in a variety of ways using the same choreographic and improvisational techniques – i.e. combining similar forms, alternating axis of rotation and planes.

VOCABULARY OF MOVEMENT

NEW GEOMETRICAL SEQUENCES: CHOREOGRAPHICAL AND IMPROVISATIONAL PROCESS

NEW GEOMETRICAL SEQUENCES: ISOMETRIC

PART III:
CHOREOGRAPHING A NEW ARCHITECTURAL SPACE

Moving from vocabulary definitions and their planar translations, we come back to the elements of the original room and their movement responses. With these movement responses and the design processes in Part 2 in mind, how would one design a new architectural space based upon a sequence of choreographed activities? What is the new architectural design that accommodates choreographed sequences of activities that respond to alternating planes of movement and axis of rotation? How does this new architectural design respond to these various types of movements based on rules of spatial configurations?