Lucas Andrew Pimm
Architecture
My design philosophy incorporates using narratives through architecture to respond to situations and challenges faced by people in society.
Final year project
Voice of Digbeth
Audience Approach
The project is based around the Typhoo Tea Factory in Digbeth, Birmingham an area developing into a creative quarter. However, there is a distinct lack of performative outlets in and around the area, therefore, the project aims to provide the community with a creative performative space to express ideas and opinions through individual voices.
Exploded Axonometric
The concept of ‘Voice’ refers less to the physical notion of sound coming from someone’s mouth, but more so to the ideas and feelings that people can have. By focusing on people's Voices’ the theatre can be a space that helps cultivate and express these thoughts and expressions. This is the combination of two elements, that of the creation of the idea and can be seen as the finding of one‘ Voice’. Whereas the second element comes about in the expression of the ‘Voice’, through a plethora of mediums that people can use to express their ideas and emotions. Theatre becomes a vessel for people to both foster and expresses their voices.
West-East Perspective Section
By allowing for a system of modules or stage elements that can be lifted and dropped down into the performance space, several performance spaces can be created with a small number of elements which can be re-purposed depending on the performance type. Each of these performance spaces would then, therefore, have different spatial characteristics that can set them apart.
Ground Floor Plan
The stage elements can be lifted independent of each other, this allows for the maximum flexibility within the building. It also means that the spaces that are desired the most can be used more efficiently expanding the available area on the first and second floors and creating the optimal performance space depending on the production.
Performance Space
The performance spaces are left open and accessible to encourage the participation of the audience. This allows the theatre to start conversations between performers and the audience, continuing the concept of voice beyond the four walls of the theatre space.
Lucas Andrew Pimm
Final year project
Voice of Digbeth