A Night at the Opera Harvard Graduate School of Design, Fall 2017 Adviser Eric Howeler
“Architecture’s instrumentality can be reconceived – not as a mark of modernity’s demand for efficient implementation but as the site of architecture’s contact with the complexity of the real”
These, at times, opposing and synergistic networks of energy are strong infrastructural systems and culturally-specific activities, residing for centuries moving in a certain direction or for nanoseconds as electrical impulses. As code literally dictates and delineates, we must safeguard and utilize these adjacent energies as they impose their systems on exterior and interior conditions to inform programmatic relationships and generate a more didactic understanding of placement within an urban context.
The logistics of the program demand that symbiotic relationships occur in the Arts spaces, primarily that developer and use group requirements are consistently in communication (properly financed and maintained). These surrounding energies can intertwine into the program to help connect the threads of social, economic, environmental and political motivations.
Acting as the glowing orb off the MASS Pike, this project situates the Opera of the future for BLO and the Berklee School of Music as the premiere destination for the performing arts in Boston.