Askance was a semester long project.  For this project we were to add a proscenium, fly space and update the black box theater. I begun by exploring: Askance auditorium, Concordia theater and theater B. After that I explored Askance in depth. Plans and models were created of the structural elements to define what would be kept in the remolded. After many case studies the class and I exchanged our project with a different person, we switched project three times. By the end of the project we got into groups and partnered up with a student from the theater department and entered a competition.

Our design was simple we would add a curtain wall on the second floor so that the lobby could look into the fly space. There would also be descending ramp with tables so that student could take a break and have lunch. We added more things that where suggested form our theater specialist student partner such as class rooms and offices that were needed. We tried to keep the changes minimal and ethical so that the addition would not be too expensive.

The most complicated part about the design was incorporating accessibility ramps and vertical circulation. The theater had so many floors and the floor plans where not very long making it difficult to create ramps to code. That ment we had to get creative with our design.  We solved this problem by overlaying the ramps to reduce the length.