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

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

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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.

Overview

My thesis project involves restoring the "dream" within Drive In Theaters. Sunset Drive In, is located in Shelby, North Carolina and was once a luxury to many families. Each weekend families would come together, and slip away from the hassles of everyday life and step into a fantasy that Hollywood had created. With my thesis, I want to bring back the magic that was once given to so many. Over the years Sunset Drive In has became weathered with age, and each year a piece of the site seems to fall away. Although, many still love the drive in, I hope to bring Sunset back to life, with combining ideas of modern age to a lifestyle that is slowing its pace. With respect to the site I have already been provided, I would like to capture the essence of nostalgia to past, with a creative spin of modernization to the Drive In. With my study I hope to travel through the transformation of cinema, and create a link between the flat screen TV of the modern age to the large plywood screens that once captured life in an open field.