PROJECTIVE PICTURE HOUSE
Core II Studio • Picture House
Harvard GSD • Instructor: Jeffry Burchard • Spring 2021
Projective Picture House is a picture house that both frames the city and serves as a flexible space and a movie theater. This project is located in Boston, Massachusetts. The idea of this project is to create an architectural buffer between the project site and the city of Boston. The main circulation of the project utilizes stacked staircases that allow access to different programs; the bottom staircases allow access to the movie theaters and the top staircases allow access to the public spaces such as, restaurants, exhibition spaces, and public spaces.
In the interior, we started to see how the double stairs circulations at the perimeter started to wrap around the building and show how the light penetrates the space creating an exciting ephemeral shadow effect within the interior space.
On the exterior, the materiality of the facade and the staircase are expressed during the night and day. The transparency and translucency of the materials create an interesting glowing effect at night and a semi-transparent effect during the day, allowing public gathering within the project both during the day and at night.
This architecture serves as the architectural buffer that allows coherent dialogue between both the project site and the city both inside-out and outside-in.
