Site Axon illustrating the programs through the site as well as the spectator disbursement throughout.
Reframing Contemporary Performance
The Newburgh Contemporary Performing Arts Center critically evaluates the needs of the City’s performance community as well as what a performance is in the age of a 6 second snapshot. The modern performance is oft reduced to a selection of curated views that are then digitally disturbed to convey one’s participation in the event. Manifesting this sense of aperture in the built environment was the main focus of this project. Segmenting and framing the stages of performance to re-orient viewers and performers, audience and spectacle, goods and production. An amphitheater with six pre focused stages, a market space backed by communal workshop space, live-work residencies encouraging artist to put their process on display, and a main proscenium stage with an inhabitable envelope to allow a secondary viewing of the productions back of house.
Spring 2019, GSAPP Advanced Four Studio
Amina Blacksher
Amina Blacksher
Site Floor Plan showing the blend of structure elements within and the landscaping without and the disbursement of program.
1/8 Scale Models of the Aperture Amphitheater, Makers Market, and Exposition Live-Work Studios reframing each performance to challenge the spectators perception.
Site Floor Plan showing the blend of structure elements within and the landscaping without and the disbursement of program.
Site map of Downtown Newburgh New York along the Hudson River
Drawing to Model study illustrating the community players in Newburgh. From NYC up the Hudson to Dia Beacon this project is a layered composition of communities and perspectives
Drawing to Model study illustrating the community players in Newburgh. From NYC up the Hudson to Dia Beacon this project is a layered composition of communities and perspectives
Drawing to Model study illustrating the community players in Newburgh. From NYC up the Hudson to Dia Beacon this project is a layered composition of communities and perspectives
Book Matched Perspectives of the Aperture Amphitheater that acts to mirror the backstage as it's own unique performance as much as that being performed to the spectators.
