Scenaric architecture The project for a national cabinet of curiosity.

摘要

What ever happened to the people who lived, met, played and acted inside of buildings? When did architecture begin to stifle their creative capabilities and treat them as simple creatures of habit; as subsidiary to space rather than indispensable in the creative definition of space? While we have witnessed during the loth century the construction of more buildings than any previous centuries, the place occupied by critical and compelling architecture continues to dwindle. Favouring facile formal and material manipulations, architecture today appears to have jettisoned its core values as a principally social and collective art form. The proposal for a scenaric architecture is one that attempts to re-discover architecture's beauty and power as an instigator of new spatial and social conditions by proposing to frame the users of buildings as active and essential actors in the creation and enactment of the events and actions that take place within architecture. Learning from the theatrical and cinematic orchestration of space, it is an attempt to mobilize a wide range of scenographic elements and techniques to script narratives and scenarios in space. It is the project for an architecture that questions, through interactive and imaginative spaces, whether or not we might propose new ways of interacting, intervening and altering the world around us.