CHOREOGRAPHING ARCHITECTURE:
Developing a Generative Movement Language for Embodied Design


Sara D’Amato, M.ARCH
Directed-Student Research
(2019-2020)
School of Architecture
McGill University
Supervisor: Dr. Theodora Vardouli

Awarded the 2020-2021 Ping Kwan Lau Prize in Architecture



FINAL PRESENTATION 



FALL 2020: ARCHIVE




CHOREOGRAPHING ARCHITECTURE



PERMUTATIONS:
CHOREOGRAPHING AND IMPROVISING NEW GEOMETRIES


Here I use the movement grammar and translation grammar in a vacuum. I worked on memorizing their relationships and then using my body’s movements to create new geometries by performing specific sequences of movement rules and being aware of their geometric translation. This process becomes a playground for choreographing new forms based on these grammars, as well as improvising designs that distort geometries I intended to create 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.


NEW FORMS: VOCABULARY OF GEOMETRICAL SEQUENCES




GENERATING FORMS: CHOREOGRAPHICAL AND IMPROVISATIONAL MAKING


NEW FORMS: ISOMETRIC