Variable Speed Theatre
Site: Back Bay, Boston
Advised by Michelle Chang
In our contemporary moment, theatres are uniquely able to be an anchor to other realities – to provide, as Mark Wilson calls it, a “physical home for social multimedia”. We were interested in interrogating this relationship between the theatre and the city. Our initial research found precedents that extrapolated wildly different aspects of the picture-viewing experience into an architectural language – from simulating the transparency of a screen, to inheriting the opacity of a black box.