In contemporary society, the production and consumption of arts becomes standardized cultural goods emphasizing sensory stimulation. They occupied the majority of the market and causing some of the traditional art forms and techniques going out of the public eye, such as theatre replacing by cinema and manual printmaking technique replacing by automatic machine. Thus, the artists working on them require more publicity of their works. This building would not only passively offers a place to exhibit and perform, but also “narrate” the production of such art forms themselves as a functional “living museum”.

This project intends to create a cultural venue supporting the activities of theatre and printmaking artists in Merchant City of Glasgow. By introducing the idea of “diegesis” into spatial expression, this hybrid building transforms the black box of process of artistic production into exhibitable subject. In this way, it would fulfill the function of producing, performing, exhibiting, promoting and educating as an urban cultural building.