dis.PLAY - Center for the Art of Moving Images. A Film Center for Washington, D.C.

This thesis explores how a displayed image and architecture interact together. This manifesto is analogically explored using parts of the human body such as the eyeballs as a structural analysis for the buildings with a projection of the cornea, the pupil, the retina, the optic nerves and the brain. This analysis follows a sequential order of capturing light, transcribing light into image, and displaying such image onto a screen. Both, the image and architecture are created parallel to each other respectively when conceiving an architectural idea in order to develop the idea into a building and then perceiving the architecture from such building. These steps are a cinematic approach using a video camera to record an experience of movement through the journey of a metro ride. This video is one of the tools used to edit an urban tissue of downtown Washington, D.C. The project becomes a Center for the Art of Moving Images exposing vectors of movements through its architecture. The building is manifested in a three-dimensional design where the site provides a sunken plaza 60 ft below street level perceived as a new floor in the city. The underground metro station transitions to the street surface through the use of this plaza in a very harmonious way. The result is a visual depth parallel to the perspectives perceived in movies where you see beyond the surface of the screen and in this case, beyond the surface of the city.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Department dc:contributor.department

Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2006

Author dc:creator

• Torres-Barreto, Jose Antonio

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Emmons, Paul F.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Pomajambo, Shane
• Holt, Jaan
• Piedmont-Palladino, Susan C.

• Academy
• Cinema
• Projection
• Light
• Memory
• Sequence
• IMAX
• Film
• Washington
• D.C.
• Torres
• Tony
• Screen
• Illussion
• Center
• Art
• Sound Stage
• City
• Sphere
• Metro
• Display
• Vision
• Transcription
• Capture
• Perception
• Movement
• Image
• Architectural
• Eyeball
• Cornea
• Pupil
• Retina
• Movies
• Conceive
• Perceive
• Develop
• Chinatown
• Urban
• Building
• Plaza
• Urban Fabric
• Gallery

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-02242006-232010

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/31337