The Idea - Mobile Auditorium
The idea in Project 1 was to create a third house within parliament that allowed for public integration into parliamentary proceedings. This idea has been developed into a more mobile and distributed form that is external to existing parliament house. Instead of the people going to parliament the strategy is to bring the parliamentary discourse to the people.
After investigating the problem of debate and looking at successful formats such as Q and A I have begun to form the architectural idea of a mobile auditorium for hosting public political debates. The debate itself will focus on current political issues such as the Carbon Tax and act as a central place for discussion. A major difference will be in the virtual strategy adopted to enhance, document, analyze, and project the debate. The architecture will act as a central presence for the debate which is something that the Carbon Tax debate appeared to lack. This architectural 'centre' will help structure and organize the debate as well as instigating it within the public realm.
The debate will consist of an a physical inner layer a physical outer layer and a virtual layer. This is an idea I have modeled off Q and A and represents the physical studio audience, a physical audience outside of the auditorium and the virtual audience contributing via facebook and twitter etc. The auditorium will project a twitter feed and video images on the external facade which will allow people outside to engage in the debate inside. This format will maintain the controlled centre whilst expanding the debate to a much wider audience.
Architectural Type
Mobile Auditorium
Function
The auditorium will facilitate small scale political debates that follow a panel/audience format. It will also allow for the projection of high resolution images on the exterior facade of the building for the viewing of people situated outside. External participants will be able to interact with the facade though their mobile phones etc. An example is someone sending in a comment via twitter and the comment then being projected onto the facade of the building for everyone to see. The building will also be able to display a video image of the inside of the auditorium onto the exterior facade allowing for external participants to view the proceedings.
Construction and Logistics
The building will be an auditorium designed for efficient assembly and disassembly at a wide range of sites. The building is intended to be assembled within 1-2 days and is to consist of modular parts that can transported within a medium to large size truck and stored within 50 sqm of floor space.
Materials and Structure and Equipment
The physical structure of the auditorium will be light weight, easily constructed and easily transported. Ideally it will consist of a modular steel frame with a light weight material for the media facade. The auditorium seating and stage will consist of a steel frame with industrial plastics for furnishings. The lighting rig will be steel and also support the light weight removable roof. Lighting will be secured to the lighting rig along with other audio and video components.
Exemplar 1
Mobile Performance Venue Concept
[Various Architects : a Mobile Performance Venue. Designed to host the performance “ID – Identity of the soul” (touring worldwide in 2009), the client requested a unique and iconic structure. Also, this venue needs to be mobile, so volume/weight were key on this design developed as a flexible ellipse structured with aluminium frames and an inflatable hexagonal skin. Once built, it will be the world´s largest mobile performance venue, fitting on 30 standard containers for shipping.]
This exemplar presents a clear model for a mobile auditorium. The function is not too far removed from an auditorium and the elliptical shape is well suited to house seating and a stage. My project will be on a smaller scale so the predicted assembly time of 2 weeks will be significantly less than this exemplar.
Exemplar 2
Zaha Hadid: Chanel Mobile Art Pavillion
Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects
Location: Paris, France
Client: Chanel; Chanel Mobile Art
Project Area: 29 x 45 m, a total of 700 sqm
Project Year: 2008-2010
Photographer: Stefan Tuchila
Materials for the pavilion include: a façade constructed from fibre re-inforced plastic, the roof PVC, ETFE roof lights, the primary structure was created from 74t steel and has over 1752 different steel connections, and the secondary structure consists of aluminium extrusions.
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