An Urban Epicenter for Contemporary Art and Technology

The building as a transformable stage performs as life changes within it. A performance in which the building is always mirroring the actual use and play. Providing a framework for different programs wrapped around each other and for scenarios appearing and disappearing over time. Introducing the component of time as the fourth dimension allows several events to emerge simultaneously and alternately in the same space. This simultaneity creates a superposition of the individual programs taking place. The building creates a multifunctional space, which generates possibilities to let different scenarios occur temporally limited. To make this possible, the architecture has to be unfinished in a certain way. In architecture, the conditions of the unfinished are created by adaptability. They are created by changing the use of spaces, constant movement and reconfiguration of building parts and the use of new media technology to simulate and augment space. The result, besides the unfinished object, is a constant ongoing transformation process. The transformation process of the building rather than the output has a temporal impact on space and material. This project proposes a public architecture of process, flexible and responsive to the changing conditions of its users. Architecture as an open platform providesv an interactive, performative, and adaptable structure defined by the programmatic framework. A socially interactive machine as an adaptable stage with settings for different conditions of time and space. In this way, the qualities of a big city are transferred to the design of individual buildings. This thesis tackles the search for this kind of program, the appropriate typology and a design proposal.