Dancing in the Street

Architekturentwurf 2
Velina Iantcheva (Master Thesis)
Betreuer*in: Greg Lynn

The project aims to democratize access both to the limelight and the viewing seat by treating the facades as interfaces between theaters and a wider audience and defining spaces for spectatorship or performance of different scales as an extension of the public realm. Located in Helsinki, Finland, the proposal seeks to extend the calendar of street performances and informal social dance to the cold winter months and transfer the outdoor street like character to the interior by programming the circulation of the building with sequences of plazas, stages and cafes. In the summer, activity reorients to the exterior. The visual relationships within the interior street network challenges the dichotomy of active actor and passive spectator. The role of an individual becomes ambiguous – each visitor both observes and is observed, or rather participates in a collective performance.

(c) Velina Iantcheva

(c) Velina Iantcheva