This essay seeks to argue points of agreement and contradictions between the design of the Theatre School and the key concepts of Henri Lefebvre from the text ‘Production of Space’.por Ng Jia Suen
1. KEY IDEA: Monuments have the quality to engage with humans over long periods of time.
2. KEY IDEA: Different people have different experiences with buildings at different time.
3. ISSUE: Interaction between individuals and interaction between individuals and the building
3.1. How a theatre school could provide a common space for everyone and allow the individual to eliminate distractions from the external environment
3.2. Self contained environment which students can get various kinds of resources and guidance.
3.3. Integrate the spaces together for closer interaction between students (eg. study of body movement & body consciousness)
4. Personalized experience of particular spaces with different groups of people
4.1. Users gain different experiences when they are in a different community.
4.2. Self contained environment which students can get various kinds of resources and guidance.
4.3. Different groups of people will bring out different identities of the space
4.4. Shading panels on the exteriors will provide different shadow effect on the interior at different timing of the day
5. KEY IDEA: Town no longer serve the people in them.
6. KEY IDEA: The sound itself is one kind of material.
7. KEY IDEA: Architecture is not an image.
8. ISSUE: Spaces must be experienced through all the senses. "Not text but textures".
8.1. Students do not touch, see or hear passively, they feel, look and listen actively.
8.2. Pop up spaces which are the communal/ collaborative spaces with different volumes catered to different activities.
8.3. Transition of emotions when penetrating through a community to get into another community with the connecting flights.
8.4. Shading panels on the exteriors will provide different shadow effect on the interior at different timing of the day
9. ISSUE: Wants and Needs of individuals in their school
9.1. Students want visual connection with nature. (thermal comfort)
9.2. Students want calm and tranquil the most followed by hope and euphoria.
9.3. Engaging users; journey from milestone to milestone through a calm and tranquil environment.
9.4. Students want an environment with less noise distractions. (noise level)
10. ISSUE: Materials in the spaces will speak for the space and help to mold the characteristics of the space
10.1. Using different material finishes to demarcate different communities in the school
10.2. Students do not touch, see or hear passively, they feel, look and listen actively.
10.3. Using different material finishes to demarcate different communities in the school will affect how users react to their surroundings
10.4. Wavy Aluminium mesh panels that are used at the communal interactive spaces represents the backdrop in a theatre
10.5. sliding panels are used at garden areas and corrugated concrete are cladded on the external walls of learning spaces
