Art has a great role in showing what happens in human beings? life.
Soul, intelligence and the emotions are the reflections of the
community, and Art forms the social identities of communities. It also
shows us the difference between the various social identities. Global
influences effect the types of knowledge acquisitions or the social
values in the art, and the artists determine the standards of modern
life.
Thus, art centers have many roles beside their fundamental functions
that should be participant, shared with society and create a modern
level in connection between the citizens and the artists? works. This
concept is the key criteria for the Izmir Opera House Project. The
project should be reflecting the history, the culture and the modern
life in Izmir, furthermore it should be an identity for the city of
Izmir.
In this context, we have started to design an urban art dome that we
call Artistic Foyer. The urban power effects the functional system, and
the functional system defines the artistic foyer. As a result, all
these things together create a parametric topography which forming the
dome.