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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

ACTIVITIES:
CHOREOGRAPHING A NEW ARCHITECTURAL SPACE


Here I use the inverse of the movement grammar: In other words I go from the notation of a movement back to the architectural element in which it responded. Then I perform dance constrained by movements in the grammar, while imagining that I am enacting a set of tasks in domestic space. The grammar allows me to move from this stylized performance of everyday activities to a proto-architecture that contains them.


MOVEMENT VOCABULARY: RESPONSE TO ORIGINAL ARCHIITECTURE


CHOREOGRAPHING AND RESPONDING TO A NEW ARCHITECTURAL SPACE



GENERATING SPACE: MOVEMENT SCRIPT RESPONSE TO THE GENERATING SPACE: MOVEMENT SCRIPT
GENERATING SPACE AND MOVEMENT RESPONSE: PLAN

GENERATING SPACE AND MOVEMENT RESPONSE: SECTION


These three experiments are speculations on possible ways of choreographing architecture. They foreground movement and embodiment as generators of space and form, while contemplating the role of notational representation and rule-based protocols in that process.