Paris From Below
The thesis critiques the generic trope of approaching underground architecture, offering a new experience of the unseen space below, and a nouveau pivotal point to experience 21st Century Paris beyond the 19th Century Haussmannian streetscape.
As a void with multiple vantage points, travellers and users of the underground space act as part of the mise-en-scene inside the proposed underground cinematheque beneath Opera Garnier. The major sequencing of events along the axis between the spatial volumes composes the performative space for a new rendezvous of the souterrain and the city above. The thesis explores ways of mapping the underground, and creates thresholds to discover, view and frame the fiction and the reality.
As a void with multiple vantage points, travellers and users of the underground space act as part of the mise-en-scene inside the proposed underground cinematheque beneath Opera Garnier. The major sequencing of events along the axis between the spatial volumes composes the performative space for a new rendezvous of the souterrain and the city above. The thesis explores ways of mapping the underground, and creates thresholds to discover, view and frame the fiction and the reality.
