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The Museum of Moving Images, Granville Island, Vancouver

University of British Columbia

In October 1997 The Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design proposed that a Museum of Moving Images be built at the site adjacent to the intended Granville Island Film Center currently under development permit application at The City of Vancouver. ECIAD intended the museum to show "... the magic in which the film was created by..." In addition, the program would comprise a library of books, videos, and compact discs. The starting point of the thesis was the two key words of the program: "moving" and "image". The museum was dependent not only the phenomenal qualities of site but the recognition of the visceral and of the construction of images through human vision and experience. The thesis explored fundamental constructs of film (the projection of light through an image on transparency onto a surface and further, the way the eye registers that phenomena) as a basic framework for realizing the principles of the moving image. Beginning at the ground both the parking on the site and the adjacent site gradually slopes to the lowest part of the "bar" building which from ground to sky consists of gallery, retail space, library, small theater and administration offices. The bar is intersected by a series of "tubes" containing the museum spaces. The front facade along the retail strip is the point at which all of the program can be read simultaneously. The first tube begins at the point of entry of the museum and gradually rises and switches back and forth through the site up to the third level of the larger bar building where there is a connection to the neighbouring film center, the library, or the roof top. Each tube is punctured with slots that allow glimpses and chance visual connections of other bodies moving through the museum and facilitates the registration of the bodies position within the space of the museum and the site.

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2009-05-22

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http://hdl.handle.net/2429/8068

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