PROFESSOR

Charlie O'Geen

STUDIO THEME

Filmmakers go through extraordinary lengths to transport their audience to a different world. They create elaborate sets, build models and miniatures, consider timing and lighting, creatively think about camera placement and focal length, and employ actors and actresses at the top of their game to convince the consumer that they are in a (sometimes radically) different place. Wherever we watch a film – in a theater with sticky floors, on a couch watching a tv with a loud neighbor, or on a small phone on a busy subway commute – we are inside a story which is carefully crafted to make us sweat in the desert, sense the cold snowy wind on our face, or feel the pressure of being underwater.

This studio will take on the high level of craft and consideration of spaces that movies do. How can spaces be created that transport us to a different place? How can these spaces be grounded in real-world necessities such as code yet heighten our senses with material articulations? Students in this studio will select a singular material to design their building with. In addition to the mono material, this studio will look at the movie theater from a variety of scales and perspectives – from an individual doorknob to the overall massing of the structure – and will stitch together the many architectural layers to offer occupants and onlookers a radically different immersion into spatial assemblies.