FORT NIAGARA THEATER
Project: Sophomore Fall Semester
Location: University at Buffalo, School of Architecture
Professor: Greg Delaney
Year: 2012
Found and forgotten spaces often provide us with the opportunity to imagine how one can leverage their interstitial conditions to create something new. Randomly found objects can act as a catalyst when bundled together to spur the imagination into creating an architectural space that emerges from an abstract method of space making. It allows us to construct a new interpretation of interstitial conditions, circulation and volumetric space.
The question of how a space emerges from the interstitial to interact with, in this case, the fortified walls of an old civil war fort provides the basis for an architectural problem. The rigid interstitial wall, existing in between security and destruction, creates a surface, which a newly found space penetrates through. The result of which is a space that tries to break down the notion of rigidity by creating a sense of motion through both its form and function.