Academic Project: City Centrum

The City Centrum aims at freedom of expression and also to free the evil of freedom by creating a space with multiple media devices for public use with any purpose. It enables any individual to temporarily possess a similar power of influence as celebrities and politicians by hosting their events and broadcasting their expression on a city scale.

The life of the building is dependent on the life of each hosted event. It starts with the initial attracting media set through the media devices and is maintained by effective absorption of participants, continuously amplifying the event.

The analysis of Glass Video Gallery started by describing entrance / exit, exhibits, and physical boundary. These elements were used as the basis to run a simulation of visitor movement and to speculate potential behaviour: crowd, physical path, visual focus, and occupied space.

The Glass Video Gallery was designed by Bernard Tschumi in Groningen, Netherlands. Tschumi attempted to use the gallery to light up the surrounding urban spaces. His gallery was an event container for exhibiting music videos, attracting and absorbing visiting participants, and amplifying the event.

This experiment was a digitised demonstration of Bernard Tschumi’s understanding of architecture. Building serves as an envelope for hosting events, which in return defines the quality of architecture. Architecture is no longer merely static built space; its most definitive quality is determined by the interaction and mutual influence between space and users.