N.Y.C.'s Next Great Cultural Destination: A Shape-Shifting Building
Like many of the experimental architects in the 1960s, Cedric Price had ideas so radical that they were destined to the confines of sketchbook pages and treatises. One such proposal is the "Fun Palace," a shape-shifting theatre that reconfigures itself based on real-time data it collects on the preferences of people flowing thorough the space.
3 August 2016
| Lacey Glave
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Like many of the experimental architects in the 1960s, Cedric Price had ideas so radical that they were destined to the confines of sketchbook pages and treatises. One such proposal is the "Fun Palace," a shape-shifting theatre that reconfigures itself based on real-time data it collects on the preferences of people flowing thorough the space.
Fast-forward 50 years to the Shed, a nonprofit cultural venue that is currently under construction in Hudson Yards, the 17-million-square-foot development on Manhattan's West Side.
The organisation commissioned architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group to design the building, and they took a page from Price's playbook and conceived of a structure that achieves the Fun Palace's aim - a destination that can house whatever its users desire, whether that's a theatrical production, a gallery exhibition, a concert, a fashion show, or whatever harebrained scheme artists of the future concoct.
"Like its predecessor, our building is envisioned as open infrastructure that is versatile and responsive to the ever-changing demands of artistic endeavours in size, media, and technological complexity," the architects state in a release.
Fast-forward 50 years to the Shed, a nonprofit cultural venue that is currently under construction in Hudson Yards, the 17-million-square-foot development on Manhattan's West Side.
The organisation commissioned architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group to design the building, and they took a page from Price's playbook and conceived of a structure that achieves the Fun Palace's aim - a destination that can house whatever its users desire, whether that's a theatrical production, a gallery exhibition, a concert, a fashion show, or whatever harebrained scheme artists of the future concoct.
"Like its predecessor, our building is envisioned as open infrastructure that is versatile and responsive to the ever-changing demands of artistic endeavours in size, media, and technological complexity," the architects state in a release.
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