Operation Paris : Paris Opera Competition

Magyar, Peter

ISBN 10: 1490755551 / ISBN 13: 9781490755557

Published by Trafford Pub, 2015

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• Title: Operation Paris : Paris Opera Competition
• Publisher: Trafford Pub
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1490755551
• ISBN 13: 9781490755557
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Working at the boundaries of the known, the unknown and the unknowable, I prioritize the two latter notions. Intend to excavate the preconscious from the subconscious strata. My tools are my pen and lately the stylus (for drawing on digital tablets). The material starting point is the epidermis of the place, but from there one has to ascend to the rarefied spheres of thought and even feelings. This floating in the domains of the unknown and unknowable, unfortunately during the design process and as the straight consequence of the same, shifts more and more towards the domain of the known, and in the constructed reality every unknown must be excluded. My process drawings aim to serve the prolongation of the floating phase, and interrogate that hope, whether the materialized reality could convey anything at all from the Icarusean gift, provided by the design experience for its enthusiastic laborer. - More: http//www.youtube.com.watch?v=JhxyTozjHE video which shows the method, and the direct ink drawing mode on opaque paper.

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Operation Paris

Paris Opera Competition

By PETER MAGYAR

Trafford Publishing

Copyright © 2015 Peter Magyar
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4907-5555-7

INTRODUCTION

Opera Bastille, Paris, 1983.

I intended to resolve in this project the following premises:

- To position the one million square-feet building on a site one-fifth of this area, and with irregular boundaries;

- To obey ordinances related to building-heights;

- To realize the myth: "Opera for the people" and to translate it to a functioning building.

The linear arrangement of the stages of the major auditorium with 2700 seats, the experimental theater with 1600 seats and the fully equipped rehearsal-hall with 100 seats made it possible to serve all of these units with a common back-stage zone. This in turn generated a computer-controlled and operated stage service system, where the middle element of the back stage works as a moving crane-elevator, servicing thus the stages from any of the subterrain storages. The - for economical reasons - oversized requirement, to run six operas simultaneously - demanded a non-traditional solution. To the contrary, concerning the rites of the arrival, I am very conservative, and view this process equivalently important to that of the performance - I even call it the "stage of the audience." Easier to say, then to preserve the graciousness of the arrival/exit of over four thousand people. For that reason - and to at least partially resolve the notion: "for the people", I've created a sunken plaza, where people converge, coming by car, with one of the three metro-lines, or walking. All arrive to a stair - which could serve as well an amphitheater and which leads to the entrance level. This plaza is open to everybody, is surrounded by restaurants, coffeehouses, and even gives a view to the foyer and of the illuminated Picasso painting hanging on the wall of it. The building containing the offices and dressing rooms is shaped-like all of the other parisian buildings - by the height-restrictions and the given angle of the roof. Its sides are part of two large spheres. Extended these latter in our imagination, one would enclose all the great buildings of the Old Paris, while the other contains the new ones.

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