Elasticity: Flexible but able to retain shape
While in school, we are encouraged to expand our thinking, push our minds to their limits, and stretch beyond. The Hatchery will be a place where we can expand and push ourselves, and our work to it’s extremes. The Hatchery itself must be flexible and able to bend to the needs of it’s inhabitants and users. The furniture that will be in the space must be multi-functional and able to be moved to change the space around for different uses. Temporary walls will be created out of bungee cords that go from floor to ceiling, and can be manipulated by pulling and twisting the cords to created different walls and spaces to display work.
The retail space will be separated from the performance space by temporary walls of cable, and will have displays that can be moved around to accommodate new merchandise. The ceiling of the performance and retail spaces will be covered in a stretch fabric that will be pulled to different points to look like it is expanding and contracting. At one place, the ceiling will open up to a skylight above.
The work spaces and back rooms will have walls that mirror the ceiling up front. The feeling of the space being elastic will hopefully promote elasticity of the mind.
When we graduate and get employed, we may have to reign in our minds a little, and think more logically. Until that time, the Hatchery will be a place for our minds to stretch to it's limits, and to create and display truly amazing work.
The work spaces and back rooms will have walls that mirror the ceiling up front. The feeling of the space being elastic will hopefully promote elasticity of the mind.
When we graduate and get employed, we may have to reign in our minds a little, and think more logically. Until that time, the Hatchery will be a place for our minds to stretch to it's limits, and to create and display truly amazing work.