Architecture Studio III 4.025 | MIT Architecture
December 2021
Instructor: Cristina Parreño Alonso
TA: Carolyn Tam
A study of Aldo Rossi's famous Teatro Del Mondo. Constructed from sheets of plywood, which were laser-cut and then assembled.
This project builds on the original floating theater's ambiguity and simultaneous role as the actor, spectator, and stage.
This project builds on the original floating theater's ambiguity and simultaneous role as the actor, spectator, and stage.
The theater is not tailored to any location or environment; the constantly fluctuating landscape is a core part of the theater’s thesis, as it continuously changes the perception of the building. The landscape transforms the structure while the presence of the theater alters the urban environment, creating a choreography with the city and its people.
I aimed to enrich the existing theater by building a contained ecosystem within the framework and defining the complementary programs on land. As the floating structure performs theatrically for those watching from the shores, another performance of environmental mitigation is taking place internally. These two cycles work in tandem, blurring the lines between inside and outside, audience and performance.
