Facade Encounters: A film studio for students
Technical University of Munich
Chair for Architectural Design and Conception
Professor Uta Graff
The facade acts as the threshold between interior and exterior space. It becomes an object, in which only the opening allows encounters. Different elements of openings like windows and door enable different types of encounters, private and intimate as well as public and volatile. Visible facade elements define intimacy and the setting for encounter. The design for the film studio offers varying spatial configurations in interior and exterior space, by furniture and adaption of exterior space an infinite range of encounters can be filmed.
The facade offers various typologies of use. This way, only a few props can efficiently change the scene and atmosphere. The main element of the studio design for the students of the University of Television and Film Munich is the fixed piece of facade in the center, which is supported by beams and columns of the interior back wall and therefore enables a limited amount of flexibility when it comes to the positioning of interior walls and also the removal of walls for filming. The exterior space forms around this piece of facade and can be adapted according to the needs of the students and eventually extended with a green screen. The studio design can be seen as a base for further developements in upcoming years which can change spatial configurations or provide additional props or modules.
In cooperation with Livia Plaumann, Mats Kröhnert and Emil Roeck
