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Jonathan Richert

Jonathan Richert

Los Angeles, CA, US

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Los Angeles Film Museum: Transforming Realities

Located on the corner of First and Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles, the LA Film Museum seeks to capitalize on the important role of Broadway and its movie palaces in the history of film in Los Angeles. 

Just as films create new realities and stories for us to experience, so the museum seeks to create new visual realities of its existence through the movement of its structures.  As shifts are made in both plan and section, the site changes, creating endless stories of its visual composition.  In these stories, the public is not simply the observer or bystander, but takes part in the creation.  The performer is now the passer-by, and the stage, the city.

Each shift and transformation of structure causes light to be released, reflected, and realized in new ways.  The moving of whole pavilions or even a single panel causes light to escape and be scattered on the ground, rest upon nearby buildings, or be mingled with other lights.  Each person has a part in this creation, telling a new story, crafting a new reality.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Los Angeles, CA, US
My Role: Designer, Renderer