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Basically Wyly theatre is a cultural building. Its role is mainly to create a place for acting and performing different types of art. Actually, building design has gone beyond this by providing a space that expands potentialities to unexpected level. The cultural impact of the building is intensive and deeply effective (Wise 2015; 2010). Otherwise, the building design has received great support and high cheering from architects around the world. It has won several awards such like: AIA’s National Honor Award (2011), American Council of Engineering Companies’ National Gold Award (2010), American Institute of Steel Construction, IDEAS² Award (2010), and U.S. Institute for Theatre …show more content…
Moreover, he highlighted the hall in the center by using red color while he canceled the presence of the hexagonal shape by transparency. Certainly, that did not succeed in harmonizing building form with the urban character. While the design of Wyly Theatre is totally successful in urban homogeneity. It confirms the vertical principle upon which the surrounding urban structure [Figure 26]. In order to respect the other side of the vicinity that is less in height and keens to horizontality, it also reduced the footprint area on the plot which leaves a room to a surrounding landscape. Building’s interaction with the urban form and character seems too good in harmony and required …show more content…
7. CONCLUSION: ACHIEVING CREATIVITY
In this concluding passage, it should be noted that architecture is multi-disciplinary field. Therefore, the creativity in architecture cannot be confined to a specific or particular stage or level of a particular specialization. Just as creativity encompasses all areas of life.
Figure 25: Winspear Opera House (Source: archdaily.com)
Figure 24: Image (Left) showing the entrance lobby of Derngate Theatre, Northampton.
Image (Below) showing seat layout in full capacity.
(Source: ents24.com)
Figure 26: Comparing Wyly Theatre (left) with Winspear opera house (Below) in dealing with urban context. (Source: done by author)
Creativity beholds all architecture’s components. Strands of creativity themself are inseparable. So, to achieve creativity in architecture, each element must be given all what it worth of the devoted intention. Person, process, press or product, all of which must be integrated. Architects must have enough courage to be involved in the challenge. They have to reconsider everything around them by searching for new and beneficial alternatives. They have to move away from dogmatic thinking, indulging in norms of practice, and being totally restrict to rationality. Architects of the 21st century must adopt elements of soft thinking in order to achieve creative situation. The smart architect is who invents a way in his process that increases communication with clients and users to deploy creative ideas and left his impact on them