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Nouvelle Comedie de Geneve
Designed as classic and contemporary
theater and opera house, Nouvelle Comedie Geneve is a hybrid. For the
sake of programmatic flexibility all main spaces are organized on one
horizontal plane. Acoustic requirements on stage and seating given,
constrained by the site, the resulting form is a simple massing
diagram. Thus the section resembles Antoine de St. Exuperie’s
hat-turned-elephant-eating-snake drawing from the Little Prince. The
architectural exploration is bound to the thin layer of the façade.
The skin necessarily becomes the mediating surface of this project.
Nouvelle Comedie Geneve explores a
sophisticated fractal triangulation system. Applied on the surface in
creases and corners of the volume an effect of dematerialization is
achieved. The scalar congruence of the fractal breaks down the solid
geometry derived by the inner program into ever smaller facets. These
facets project in and out, creating a bi-fold illusion of increased
depth and scale within less than half a meter of façade thickness.
The recursive nature of fractalization controls depth by
“generations” of fractals. Generations increase locally on the
skin depending on the desired effect of dematerialization.
The folded nature of fractalization
places Nouvelle Comedie Geneve within a series of surface/façade
projects that aim to re-write complex surfaces with simple parametric
rules. See Spluegen / Triangulation, Rotterdam / Skin.
theater and opera house, Nouvelle Comedie Geneve is a hybrid. For the
sake of programmatic flexibility all main spaces are organized on one
horizontal plane. Acoustic requirements on stage and seating given,
constrained by the site, the resulting form is a simple massing
diagram. Thus the section resembles Antoine de St. Exuperie’s
hat-turned-elephant-eating-snake drawing from the Little Prince. The
architectural exploration is bound to the thin layer of the façade.
The skin necessarily becomes the mediating surface of this project.
Nouvelle Comedie Geneve explores a
sophisticated fractal triangulation system. Applied on the surface in
creases and corners of the volume an effect of dematerialization is
achieved. The scalar congruence of the fractal breaks down the solid
geometry derived by the inner program into ever smaller facets. These
facets project in and out, creating a bi-fold illusion of increased
depth and scale within less than half a meter of façade thickness.
The recursive nature of fractalization controls depth by
“generations” of fractals. Generations increase locally on the
skin depending on the desired effect of dematerialization.
The folded nature of fractalization
places Nouvelle Comedie Geneve within a series of surface/façade
projects that aim to re-write complex surfaces with simple parametric
rules. See Spluegen / Triangulation, Rotterdam / Skin.
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