The Gladdest Thing

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun
I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one
I will look at cliffs and clouds with quiet eyes
Watch the wind blow down the grass and the grass rise

Doesn't each of us have a place we belong
Could be a sidewalk crack or sad song
Inside our searching is desire to etch a silent thought in stone
To make our tender heart known

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun
I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one
I will look at cliffs and clouds with quiet eyes
Watch the wind blow down the grass and the grass rise

And when the lights begin to show up from the town
I will mark which must be mine and then start down
Everyone wants to be a hero or a savior of small things
I want to be champion of evening, forget not the beauty of the in-betweens

Everyone of us had orphaned our bodies
Born from dust of the stars
We can comfort each other in this place
I can look into your eyes and see my own face

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun
I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick none
I will look at cliffs and clouds with quiet eyes
Watch the wind blow down the grass and the grass rise

-Deb Talan

interior persective

latest perspectives

experimentation with mix media

inspiration in wierd places create wierd things

inspirations

lights by bocci
located in Hong Kong

exploring with perspectives

further development

I began experimenting with sloping roof planes and they may create an intersection between planes and allow for a more fluid aesthetics.
With this perspective I began refining the details.

Precis 5

schematic reviews

The Sunset Drive In was built in 1949, and operated by Ken Bentfield. Over the years the drive in, although still functioning, has became dilapidated and worn down. These are just a few images that express the need for the Drive In Movie Theater to be revitalized.
The image above is an exterior perspective to express the changes that I had wish to incorporate in my design.
Moving further I began experimenting with light quality of the space.
Also examining how the space would look from many perspectives and experimenting with light quality to that would serve as a way finding device.
With this image I wanted to express the orientation and the layout of site, also with the orientation of the vehicles.
As I began exploring light options I had imagined the exterior lighting would become dim as the movie began, allowing for a way finding device that wouldn't disrupt ones vision, and when there was an intermission, or break the lights would be shown full resolution.

Materials selections I have decided to work with is Sensitile. The reflective material, manipulates lights creating wonderful shade and shadow opportunities, and creates a sense of movement, as I had wished to accomplish with the spaces.

Also another material that is being explored are Armstrong ceiling panels as they will serve to absorb and direct sound.

Precis 3

Precis 2

Precis 1

a working progress

Precis 2

With this sketch, I was using the original concession stand as a means of being a projection in itself. Placing screens along side of the concessions would allow people to come closer together.

This image I was looking at each car having there own personal space. Since at a drive in people feel at comfort in their own property, and since its almost isolation, why not cut them off completely?
Continuing with the idea before of isolation and seperation, I had thought of these panels that would be placed between each vehicle as a divider, which would have holes that would allow for a dim light to pass through.

With this sketch I was working with the idea of each person having there own personal space, but not necessarily cutting all connections to the other viewers. Because to me the initial idea of the Drive In was to create a sense of community between strangers, and by blocking them off from one another you lose that sense of community

colleagues work

Today I had the opportunity to review a colleagues work, Jax Harmon. She is currently working on her thesis developing playgrounds for children that is safe, brings a sense of community, and engages children to not only choose how they play, but to learn something with there experiences. The location of the proposed playground is on Elm St. in Downtown Greensboro, NC. She has been undergoing research for materials for the playground and had developed schematic designs involving: Bamboo, Sand, Concrete, and many others. When reviewing her ideas, the only advice that I may give Jax would be to continue researching material. Each material she mentioned was eco-friendly but were they necessarily kid-friendly? Also, examine what will the children be learning from their experience on the playground? Will it be numbers, letters, or survival of the fittest? who knows. good luck Jax

weird and wonderful New York

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DRV-IN

Manhattan's only drive-in cinema and the world's smallest - it only has room for one car - DRV-IN involves no "driving in" at all. Artists Ben and Hall Smyth's version of the classic Americana outdoor theatres of the 1950s and 60s is actually a performance space that every few months re-invents itself – a comment on the evolving and rapidly changing neighbourhood of its Lower Eastside location. A few months ago, it was a table-tennis parlour called Pong, before that a barn store selling salvaged wood. Right now, the 350 sq ft storefront consists of a 1965 blue four-door Ford Falcon convertible – open the doors a smidgen and you'll hit the sidewalls - a movie screen and painted starry skies, artificial grass and a potted tree. Oh, and a concession stand. There's space for six people in the Falcon and DRV-IN's film schedule cherry-picks the best movies of the past 40 years. Speaking of which, that drive-in tradition of necking in the backseat is welcomed.

139 Norfolk Street; +1 646 478 7689; Bookings are taken online and up to 10 days in advance at 139norfolk.com. Four shows daily. $75 (£36), seats up to six

word representation

intermission time

obviously from the 1970's (http://www.driveintheater.com/intermission/)

intermission time

precis 1

this was an idea of creating a curtain wall that would reveal the customers of the concessions to the audience, and creating this feeling of them being the movie watch versus the movie on the screen. Also, giving an outdoor area, besides the actual earth, for viewers to be outside with the idea of a vegetative roof.
This a continuation of the idea stated before.
This is an expression of the boards with which would project the images of the film. Again, continuing the idea of sloped roofing.


this was a conceptual idea of combining theatrical performance areas and the existing structures of the drive in theatre.
this is another conceptual study of performance areas, such as theaters with sloping ceilings, and creating an over hang that would represent this idea to the drive in.