Sanklecha Dhwani Manoj

IR3018

The design intends to create an abstract of a home in the form of a theatre stage. The play is about a human converting into an insect, where the spaces inhabited by him had meanings in a nuclear, modern family. A routine was allotted to each space, organized with furniture and arrangement of objects for everyday life. With his sequential transformation, the family space was forced to vacate and rearrange objects to fulfill his bodily needs. However, when the role of space and relations is reversed between humans and animal, a habitat is declined and a space is denied by overburdening with abandoned objects. The site provides a natural slope and a transforming quarry. This feature was used in designing a form that not only breaks routine within itself but also breaks natural slopes visually. The design is built of modules that represent routine and those modules are tilted representing the breaking of routine. The spaces created after tilting the modules are used as stages to represent that the play is breaking the routine and transforming the spaces. The screens of the theater are facades of an abandoned house in the mountains. The scale of the props is exaggerated to signify the change and rearrangement of it due to Gergor’s bodily needs. The play in the levels of the spaces signifies the partial transformation of the spaces in the play, Gregor’s body, and the family’s mindset. The large scale of the form reflects the over burning of theater form on the quarry the way Gergor’s space was overburdened by abandoned objects. The design and the texture of the theater are such that one is peeping inside a family space and watching it transform into an abandoned house.