A twist in the river, a node
in the river: the node is an island. The
island is a circulation-route: a dome that morphs into a bowl that morphs into
a dome.
The bowl functions as a
theater. Bleachers wave in and out;
when the bowl isn’t used as a theater, it’s a plaza -- you sit face-to-face, in
everyday conversation.
The dome functions as a
café/restaurant. The entrance canopy
twists down to make lounge seats around the dome. Curved triangular tables and stools are
movable; they’re joined together, for
different-sized groups of people. The rubber edge of the terrace above twists
down to make multiple bar counters, at different heights. Water pours down the shell of the dome; up on
the terrace, you sit under a waterfall.
The warping of dome into
bowl, and vice versa, forms a playground, a space frame that functions as
monkey bars, a tubular slide cuts through the grid. Functions are mixed on this island: the
playground doubles as the backdrop of the stage and as a wall and ceiling.
Light streams up from beneath
the bleachers, in the bowl, and down from the roof structure, in the dome.
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