guerrilla theater
ashby station berkeley california
the guerrilla theater recenters orthographic drawing through the representational anomaly of a flattened nine-square frame found in John Hejduik's Victims 1986. to address the program for a "black box theater" in the east bay, the guerrilla theater here serves as a platform for protest and venue for film screening and theatrical performance, housed in the mundane context of daily routine in the public transit station.
orthographic drawing implies the provocative potential of spatial relationships. the space legible in the two-dimensional drawing may remain latent in digital three-dimensional modeling representations.
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the guerrilla theater at ashby station in berkeley refutes mere extrusion as design impetus, implementing bilateral projection as a formal strategy to both manipulate the existing ground plane and create an ethereal other, a ground plane elevated above the subway station and urban streetscape.
through this projected form, multiple cinematic screening spaces and live performance venues surround the commuter, subway station worker, technician, activist, and performer, who are caught in a state of systemic projection at each existing and designed ground plane of the guerrilla theater.
