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The Narrative Emergence

NikeTown Hybrid Architectural & Virtual Reality Design

Logic Model: States

Theatre Prototype

Solid State
This is the compact state of the mechanism. All the members of this system are stacked upon each other, crowded, speechless. Everyone is the closest to each other, yet furtherest simultaneously. It’s heavy, dead, cold, silent, passionless, emotionless, feelless, yet posses the innertia energy for being the most organized state, waiting for that perfect balanced position to be broke, causing the entropy increase, making chaos occur. 

Schedule: Movement Along Time Axis
The beauty of the architectural movement relies on the formation of scenes, where story is facilitated. And the schedule is the script of movement. In the scheme, movement of the marquee starts from the very left, being used as a preshow stage and information screen. As time goes by, it slowly moves into the interior space and becomes an interactive element for the commercial area to activate the indoor atmosphare, as well as to promote the business. When the show starts, it keeps on moving until it reaches it’s position above the main stage, where it will connect the stage to the props room and rehersal room from which the performers could get prepared and show up in a surprising way. During the show, the marquee also moves and rotates to help the performers to achieve their goals. When the performance is finished, the marquee will continue moving to the outside, and again becomes an exterior element of the architectural system. 
The unity of this design makes the architecture responsive and with initiative. As an interface between contect and ingredient, society and individual, exterior and interior, market and merchant, the architecture is the medium in which material, emotion, behavior are formed, exchanged, and consumed. The balanced status of this circulation, is exactly the interpretation of the liquid status.

Gas State
Removal of the four core blocks triggers the drastic movement of the whole system. Gas State, a state that is expanding, liberating, charging, colliding, sparkling. This state is where spaces are being generated, communications are being established. Environments fight and push each other, trying to probe how far themselves and their counterpart would go. This is where new rules are being made, possibilities are emerging. 

Liquid State
Gas state. after a noisy transformation, finally settles down and become liquid state. Liquid state or coagulated state, is not as dense as the solid state, however it is the most stable state. It is a state where void and space coexist and arranged in a sequencial way that forms a constant narration. This constant narration, consisted of 3-dimensional objects and timeline, is the interface between the space and the experience.

Non-concentric Rotation

Flipped Non-concentric Rotation

To experience the architecture virtually, please download the application. 

(Oculus DK2 Required)

Solo, Instructor: Greg Lynn, Julia Koerner

University of California, Los Angeles

2022 Yingnan Bao All Rights Reserved

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