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arts & performance training centre
arts & performance training centre
Can art exchange sustain humanity?
A great challenge that the urban society faces today, is that we often feel untouched by the problems of the world, because they don’t seem like ours. We do not feel strongly enough that we are part of a global community, part of a larger we. The unlimited access to data today leaves people feeling more overwhelmed and disconnected rather than empowered.
This is where a school can make a difference – art’s approach does not show people what to do, yet, engaging, and even participating in a good work of art connects one to his sense, body and mind. It can make the world ‘felt'. And this feeling may spur deep thinking, engagement and even action within all participants of the School.
A great challenge that the urban society faces today, is that we often feel untouched by the problems of the world, because they don’t seem like ours. We do not feel strongly enough that we are part of a global community, part of a larger we. The unlimited access to data today leaves people feeling more overwhelmed and disconnected rather than empowered.
This is where a school can make a difference – art’s approach does not show people what to do, yet, engaging, and even participating in a good work of art connects one to his sense, body and mind. It can make the world ‘felt'. And this feeling may spur deep thinking, engagement and even action within all participants of the School.
The Alternative Art School is about the re-emergence of artists taking control of the means of art awareness and education. Its core idea is to address contemporary issues through art and culture, through an experimental and collaborative approach – creating exciting alternatives.
The evolution of the alternative art form; Design considerations and diagrams; Architectural elements
Design Brief
Focus
Designing an arts and performance training centre in context with Titiwangsa Park.
Architectural Strategies
- Addresses the large urban park, user activities and behavioral patterns for the design of a strategic and responsive arts centre.
- Spaces designed to facilitate artistic exchange between the local community and local art scene, especially in the field of performing arts (theater and dance).
- A physical venue that houses necessary spaces for events and programs, as well as equipment for personal and collaborative art expression.
- A platform for the generation of new ideas and initiatives in the contemporary performing arts scene
Focus
Designing an arts and performance training centre in context with Titiwangsa Park.
Architectural Strategies
- Addresses the large urban park, user activities and behavioral patterns for the design of a strategic and responsive arts centre.
- Spaces designed to facilitate artistic exchange between the local community and local art scene, especially in the field of performing arts (theater and dance).
- A physical venue that houses necessary spaces for events and programs, as well as equipment for personal and collaborative art expression.
- A platform for the generation of new ideas and initiatives in the contemporary performing arts scene
Front elevation; Side elevation
Contextual Response
Focus
Designing an arts and performance training centre in context with Titiwangsa Park.
Architectural Strategies
- Addresses the large urban park, user activities and behavioral patterns for the design of a strategic and responsive arts centre.
- Spaces designed to facilitate artistic exchange between the local community and local art scene, especially in the field of performing arts (theater and dance).
- A physical venue that houses necessary spaces for events and programs, as well as equipment for personal and collaborative art expression.
- A platform for the generation of new ideas and initiatives in the contemporary performing arts scene
Focus
Designing an arts and performance training centre in context with Titiwangsa Park.
Architectural Strategies
- Addresses the large urban park, user activities and behavioral patterns for the design of a strategic and responsive arts centre.
- Spaces designed to facilitate artistic exchange between the local community and local art scene, especially in the field of performing arts (theater and dance).
- A physical venue that houses necessary spaces for events and programs, as well as equipment for personal and collaborative art expression.
- A platform for the generation of new ideas and initiatives in the contemporary performing arts scene
Section of the Art archives - conceived by a series of steps and platforms, functioning as well as a resting space, framed by dancing shadows of the adjacent studio.
Section of the Workshop - a collaborative workshop space.
Contextual Response
Engaging with art is not simply a solitary event. The arts and culture represent one of the few areas in our society where people can come together to share an experience even if they see the world in radically different ways. The lesson here is not that whether we agree about the experience that we share, but that we consider it worthwhile sharing an experience at all.
The Alternative Arts School is an experiential learning institution and arts residency based in Titiwangsa. Its programs create an environment or platform for artistic exchange between emerging and more established artists, and are personalized to suit the local community. Conceived as a series of workshops and activities, these sessions encourage participants to research ideas and realize their art-work, collaboratively or individually, inspired by their personal, daily experiences.
Engaging with art is not simply a solitary event. The arts and culture represent one of the few areas in our society where people can come together to share an experience even if they see the world in radically different ways. The lesson here is not that whether we agree about the experience that we share, but that we consider it worthwhile sharing an experience at all.
The Alternative Arts School is an experiential learning institution and arts residency based in Titiwangsa. Its programs create an environment or platform for artistic exchange between emerging and more established artists, and are personalized to suit the local community. Conceived as a series of workshops and activities, these sessions encourage participants to research ideas and realize their art-work, collaboratively or individually, inspired by their personal, daily experiences.
An upward glance towards the polycarbonate roof and cast shadows; Exterior perspective of the Street Stage that doubles as a courtyard.
Replacing permanent communities of place with ideas of temporary communities of action
As an independent and experimental educational structure, the School’s purpose is to expand fields of knowledge, foster creative working skills, and support art education outside the traditional paradigms that exist today. Engaging with the transient and colourful background of the park community, the School endeavours to explore new possibilities through an experimental and collaborative approach where all participants engage in a shared vision. In the long term, the Alternative Art School hopes to challenge the established norms of art engagement and even contribute to new knowledge production.
Through a transdisciplinary art approach, the community created by arts and culture is potentially a great source of inspiration for politicians and activists who work to transcend the polarising populism and stigmatisation of other people, positions, and worldviews that is sadly so endemic in public discourse today.
As an independent and experimental educational structure, the School’s purpose is to expand fields of knowledge, foster creative working skills, and support art education outside the traditional paradigms that exist today. Engaging with the transient and colourful background of the park community, the School endeavours to explore new possibilities through an experimental and collaborative approach where all participants engage in a shared vision. In the long term, the Alternative Art School hopes to challenge the established norms of art engagement and even contribute to new knowledge production.
Through a transdisciplinary art approach, the community created by arts and culture is potentially a great source of inspiration for politicians and activists who work to transcend the polarising populism and stigmatisation of other people, positions, and worldviews that is sadly so endemic in public discourse today.
Floor plans.
The Art Archives.
