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1	dis.PLAY - Center for the Art of Moving Images. A Film Center for Washington, D.C. Torres-Barreto, Jose Antonio 10 March 2006 (has links) This thesis explores how a displayed image and architecture interact together. This manifesto is analogically explored using parts of the human body such as the eyeballs as a structural analysis for the buildings with a projection of the cornea, the pupil, the retina, the optic nerves and the brain. This analysis follows a sequential order of capturing light, transcribing light into image, and displaying such image onto a screen. Both, the image and architecture are created parallel to each other respectively when conceiving an architectural idea in order to develop the idea into a building and then perceiving the architecture from such building. These steps are a cinematic approach using a video camera to record an experience of movement through the journey of a metro ride. This video is one of the tools used to edit an urban tissue of downtown Washington, D.C. The project becomes a Center for the Art of Moving Images exposing vectors of movements through its architecture. The building is manifested in a three-dimensional design where the site provides a sunken plaza 60 ft below street level perceived as a new floor in the city. The underground metro station transitions to the street surface through the use of this plaza in a very harmonious way. The result is a visual depth parallel to the perspectives perceived in movies where you see beyond the surface of the screen and in this case, beyond the surface of the city. / Master of Architecture Academy Cinema Projection Light Memory Sequence IMAX Film Washington D.C. Torres Tony Screen Illussion Center Art Sound Stage City Sphere Metro Display Vision Transcription Capture Perception Movement Image Architectural Eyeball Cornea Pupil Retina Movies Conceive Perceive Develop Chinatown Urban Building Plaza Vision Urban Fabric Gallery

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dis.PLAY - Center for the Art of Moving Images. A Film Center for Washington, D.C.