From an architectural intent, the inherent voids that are generated within theatres based on their role in favoring sightlines, creates opportunities to shape and amplify the individual experience.
Place is defined by existential experience between individual and environment; more than physical location, built form reveals, frames, and makes place visible, meaningful, and available to inhabit for human engagement.
Merleau Ponty explores that space is lived before it is measured, and that is explored in the transition from the exterior world to the interior.
The space that results, a generous emptiness, a void that can be inhabited, celebrated within, and animated by those people that enter them.
The dilemma lies in the home: cultural expression diminishes when spatial volume to meaningfully celebrate and fully host under one’s own roof, with one’s people, on one’s night, is reduced.