Collaborative Pavilion-Environment Proposal

Group Proposal Due: March 25

Our class will create inflatable environments for an evening concert held in collaboration with the Exploded Ensemble on Sat., May 4. Our environments will be the visual, spatial, and textural experience of the concert. Our class will be divided into four teams and each team will create a spatial environment for the audience. This can be a structure, a sculpture, or a collection of sculptures to create the space.  The concert event will take place in the ACH (Alumni Concert Hall) in the CFA Building. Each team will have ¼ of the ACH to utilize. We will also need to conceptualize how the four structures-environments-settings will work together in the space. Over the next three weeks, your group is to create a proposal and physical mock-up/model of an idea to present to the class.

Elements of your proposal:

1. Organized Google Folder of all drawings, sketches, research, brainstorming, and notes from your team meetings. Take turns being a note-taker at all of your team meetings.
2. Drawn (by-hand and/or on computer) image(s) of proposed environment.
3. Written description of idea and concept (1-3 paragraphs).
4. Birds-eye-view drawing of where fans, outlets, audience, and environmental elements will be located.
5. Physical mock-up of your proposed piece(s)
6. Draft of pattern and estimate of materials needed.

Timeline to follow:

• Feb. 28 – collect contact info for all members of your group. Schedule a time to meet just before Spring Break.
• Feb. 28-Mar. 7 – Before you go to your group’s first meeting, find an hour to go the ACH to sketch and each sketch ideas for your project. ACH schedule url: http://bit.ly/CFA-ACH
• Mar. 5-Mar. 12 – Meet with your group to share your sketched ideas and brainstorm new ones. Decide on how you want to share and/or distribute the tasks and next steps.
• Mar. 12-Mar. 18 – Meet with your group to continue working.
• Mar. 18 & 20 – In-class proposal check-in with Olivia.
• Mar. 18-25 – Meet again, or multiple times, with group to finalize proposal and elements.
• Present Proposal Mar. 25

When brainstorming the design for the environment, keep the following in mind:

• The working theme for the event is cycles
• There will need to be a place for the musicians to set-up equipment with access to nearby outlets and perform (note plan on reverse)
• The environment should be wheelchair accessible
• Up to 75 people will be staying for the entire concert
• Another 100 people may come and go during the event
• Color-changing lights can be used and should be considered.
• We can use all the ripstop we have already, plus could buy another 100 yards of two different colors. If other materials are also needed, we may be able to purchase those too.

Some questions to think about:

• • What would you like people to see as they are looking up when lying down or lounging?
  • How should people to flow through the space?
  • How will people enter and exit?
  • What is the overall feeling you imagine for the event? Does it change over time?
  • Where will the fans go?
  • What is a minimal sculptural gesture to alter the space?
  • What is a maximal sculptural gesture to alter the space?

Examples of Music:

• • Recording of Exploded Ensemble concert Fall 2018
  • Dawn of Midi performance
  • Einstein on the Beach
  • the above examples are not the exact music for the May 4 concert, but they are good references of the types of music the Exploded Ensemble will perform at the concert

Come prepared to share your proposals with the class for discussion. Upload your proposals to the class website by due date, March 25.

ACH Basic Layout

ACH Map with dimensions