This semester we will consider cinematic space. Your design project will explore the Fort Lane site, and the
existing carpark building or Queens Arcade, in relation to a cinematic concept &/or processes, such as frame, projection, screen, sequence, light and shadow, image, movement and transition, storytelling, fiction, and memory. Your proposed design for the Centre of Moving Image will result from contextual research into cinematic devices and processes, extensive site/situation research, re-scripting the site, generative concept drawings and surface designs, image sequences, and speculative designs. You will analyse, reimagine and
invent Fort Lane and the activity that takes place there through the addition of your proposed Centre for Moving Image.

The challenge of this studio brief is to repurpose existing buildings on Fort Lane (either Queens Arcade or the carpark building) and design a Centre for Moving Image which opens onto Fort Lane. Your design should offer a range of exterior and interior cinematic events across a 24/7 timescale. Consider how your design of the Centre for Moving Image might shift the cultural landscape of Tāmaki Makaurau. How will your Centre draw out new ways of experiencing moving image and cinematic space?

What is important to you as a spatial designer? In this design studio, you will need to be inquisitive and
curious and to identify an aspect of the site that resonates with you. We want you to observe your responses
to the site. What do you notice? What stands out? What do you overlook? What is hidden, forgotten,
covered over? What is problematic, missing, or unseen?