| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
Torres-Barreto, Jose Antonio
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| Author's Email Address |
jotorres@vt.edu |
| URN |
etd-02242006-232010 |
| Title |
dis.PLAY - Center for the Art of Moving Images. A Film Center for Washington, D.C. |
| Degree |
Master of Architecture |
| Department |
Architecture |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Emmons, Paul F. |
Committee Chair |
| Holt, Jaan |
Committee Member |
| Piedmont-Palladino, Susan C. |
Committee Member |
| Pomajambo, Shane |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- Academy
- Cinema
- Projection
- Light
- Memory
- Sequence
- IMAX
- Film
- Washington
- D.C.
- Torres
- Tony
- Screen
- Illussion
- Center
- Art
- Sound Stage
- City
- Sphere
- Metro
- Display
- Vision
- Transcription
- Capture
- Perception
- Movement
- Image
- Architectural
- Eyeball
- Cornea
- Pupil
- Retina
- Movies
- Conceive
- Perceive
- Develop
- Chinatown
- Urban
- Building
- Plaza
- Vision
- Urban Fabric
- Gallery
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| Date of Defense |
2006-02-10 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
This thesis explores how a displayed image and architecture interact together. This manifesto is analogically explored using parts of the human body such as the eyeballs as a structural analysis for the buildings with a projection of the cornea, the pupil, the retina, the optic nerves and the brain. This analysis follows a sequential order of capturing light, transcribing light into image, and displaying such image onto a screen. Both, the image and architecture are created parallel to each other respectively when conceiving an architectural idea in order to develop the idea into a building and then perceiving the architecture from such building.
These steps are a cinematic approach using a video camera to record an experience of movement through the journey of a metro ride. This video is one of the tools used to edit an urban tissue of downtown Washington, D.C. The project becomes a Center for the Art of Moving Images exposing vectors of movements through its architecture. The building is manifested in a three-dimensional design where the site provides a sunken plaza 60 ft below street level perceived as a new floor in the city. The underground metro station transitions to the street surface through the use of this plaza in a very harmonious way. The result is a visual depth parallel to the perspectives perceived in movies where you see beyond the surface of the screen and in this case, beyond the surface of the city.
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