Messe Performance Cube: Performing Arts Center Berlin

The Messe Performance Cube, complements the cultural heart of the Messe Berlin exhibition grounds, situated next to one of the busiest transportation nodes of Berlin. It is a centre for a wide range of performing arts and stands among the global frontrunners in the field of innovative theatre experience. The Cube transcends the traditional...

The stage for Berlin: The performing arts centre for the evolution of opera

Public opera: The opera of the people

Today, we have a variety of options for listening to music whenever and wherever we choose, from CDs and the radio to downloads and online streaming. But prior to the development of this technology, how did people listen to music? Opera was an artform whereby this was possible. No instrument has the power of the human voice to reach the deepest...

Designing a VR Lobby for Remote Opera Social Experiences

Several social VR platforms support virtual entertainment events, however their value for post-show activities remains unclear. Through a user-centered approach, we design a social VR lobby experience to enrich four motivations of theatre-goers: social, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual engagement. We ran a context-mapping focus group...

The Co-Creation Space: An Online Safe Space for Community Opera Creation

This work presents the Co-Creation Space, a multilingual platform for professional and community artists to 1) generate raw artistic ideas, and 2) discuss and reflect on the shared meaning of those ideas. The paper describes the architecture and the technology behind the platform, and how it was used to facilitate the communication process...

The sound diffusion in Italian Opera Houses: Some examples

Soundfield diffuseness in rooms is considered a fundamental aspect of a high-quality room acoustics. Since early studies by Hodgson up to more recent studies of Shtrepi and Embrechts, it was shown that high levels of sound diffuseness could guarantee blending of music, as well as spatial sound perception by listeners, and this could enhance...

City Plaza: Designing a new relationship to the water

The project examines the relationship between a city and a waterfront. With the ongoing waterfront redevelopment projects it is necessary to step back and evaluate the current trends and impacts of them on the city. City Plaza proposes a unique and original way to merge architecture and waterfronts and proposes a new structure and relationship...

OWL Formal Ontology for the Social Structure in the OperA Meta-model

In this thesis, we present the OWL OperA meta-model, which is redelivered from the OperA approach description into OWL2, and OWLperettA as a plug-in for OperettA to export the Social structure (SS) of an Organizational Model designed by OperettA into OWL2 format. The OWL OperA meta-model provides a more expressive way of defining or specifying...

NDSM Theatre: Performance driven design for a building for the performing arts

The NDSM Wharf is located on the northern shore of the IJ in Amsterdam. Reclaimed from the IJ around 1876 it came first in use in the early 1900’s. During the last century the NDSM Wharf has seen different kind of functionality but the industrial character still remains. The graduation project focuses on the future functionality of the NDSM...