Theatre for a New Theater: A Play on Architecture

Author

Alex CoulombeFollow

Degree Type

Honors Capstone Project

Date of Submission

Spring 5-1-2010

Capstone Advisor

Jon Yoder

Honors Reader

David Feldman

Capstone Major

Architecture

Capstone College

Architecture

Audio/Visual Component

no

Keywords

alex coulombe, theatre, architecture, planning, fort jay, governors island, theater

Capstone Prize Winner

no

Won Capstone Funding

no

Honors Categories

Creative

Subject Categories

Architectural Technology | Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory | Performance Studies | Playwriting

Abstract

The project entails transforming a former military fort into a theater. The scopic parameters native to both fort and theater can provide a field of operation for an architecture that simultaneously mobilizes and exposes the machinery of spectacle. In tandem, amplifying and distorting existing conditions of the fort and repurposing them for a theatrical program can provide catalytic parameters for design that are typically absent when designing from a clean slate.

Comments

To be merged with http://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/319/ which is lacking the primary thesis document.

Recommended Citation

Coulombe, Alex, "Theatre for a New Theater: A Play on Architecture" (2010). Honors Capstone Projects - All. 705.
https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/705

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