PROJECTS
Cory Hoffman - TRIAD
Frank Michel - Glowstone
TRILOGY: Trios, Triptychs and the Rule of 3s
In understanding the multitudes contained within cinema, architecture, and the design process, the TRILOGY studio explores the explicit and implicit possibilities of threeness. We find ourselves simultaneously at the beginning, middle, and end; we ask: what came before? where are we now? and what will happen next? The third time will always be a charm. Through three we get expansion or constraint, sequence or set, similarity or difference; with three we get more than the sum of the parts.
In architecture, we swim in the waters of what has already been (of the homage, the tribute, the style...). We never start from zero, and one thing always leads to another.
The TRILOGY studio looked to architectural and cinematic precedents, not only for what they can teach us about narrative, sound, and sight, or of the exigencies of program, site, and codes, but as the inspirations for a series of vibrant and cinematic architectural TRILOGIES that make thoughtful, bold, and novel proposals for movie theater designs.
As in any good film, our protagonists (i.e., architecture) have undergone dramatic journeys of self-discovery, and before the credits rolled, were re-defined through engaging with new characters (form, program, pattern), new ideas (color, access, drama), and the vanquishing of foes (imposters, defaults, and design villainy).
TRILOGY is the successor to SEQUELS (Fall 2023).