Othering Space
Translating Bharatanatyam into Architectural Practice
Architecture | Performance | Qualitative Research | Community-based Work | 2022
Dance and movement are tools used to reintegrate embodied ways of being and expressing into formal architecture and space, especially centering non-western artforms.
This thesis experiments with the philosophies and emotion-based practice of Bharatanatyam, a South Indian, Hindu art form, to reframe the design process of climatory resilient architecture. By combining dance movement experiments and community narrative investigations, this project ultimately became a proposal for an outdoor community gathering space in one of the hottest regions of Phoenix, AZ. This process is an experiment towards a generative process integrating diverse ethnic philosophies with habitat and community oriented site explorations to promote a pluralistic architectural way of being.
participant movement drawings
working drawing of translation
Sectional Experience
South Elevation
