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    This proposal is for an architectural project called the "Escuela Escolta Institute of Arts" located in Escolta Street, Manila. The project involves restoring the historic Capitol Theater building and integrating it with a new building on an adjacent demolished site. The development will house specialized art courses and have around 1,000 primary users of students and faculty. The objectives are to preserve heritage buildings, strengthen the cultural character of Escolta Street, promote urban revitalization, and spark economic activity in the area. The project will be financed through a public-private partnership between the NCCA, City of Manila, and a private investor.

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    This proposal is for an architectural project called the "Escuela Escolta Institute of Arts" located in Escolta Street, Manila. The project involves restoring the historic Capitol Theater building and integrating it with a new building on an adjacent demolished site. The development will house specialized art courses and have around 1,000 primary users of students and faculty. The objectives are to preserve heritage buildings, strengthen the cultural character of Escolta Street, promote urban revitalization, and spark economic activity in the area. The project will be financed through a public-private partnership between the NCCA, City of Manila, and a private investor.

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    This proposal is for an architectural project called the "Escuela Escolta Institute of Arts" located in Escolta Street, Manila. The project involves restoring the historic Capitol Theater building and integrating it with a new building on an adjacent demolished site. The development will house specialized art courses and have around 1,000 primary users of students and faculty. The objectives are to preserve heritage buildings, strengthen the cultural character of Escolta Street, promote urban revitalization, and spark economic activity in the area. The project will be financed through a public-private partnership between the NCCA, City of Manila, and a private investor.

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    Sample Architectural Thesis Proposal

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    This proposal is for an architectural project called the "Escuela Escolta Institute of Arts" located in Escolta Street, Manila. The project involves restoring the historic Capitol Theater building and integrating it with a new building on an adjacent demolished site. The development will house specialized art courses and have around 1,000 primary users of students and faculty. The objectives are to preserve heritage buildings, strengthen the cultural character of Escolta Street, promote urban revitalization, and spark economic activity in the area. The project will be financed through a public-private partnership between the NCCA, City of Manila, and a private investor.

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    PRELIMINARY THESIS PROPOSAL

    NAME: Perez, Yrral Jaime C.


    DESIGN 8 ADVISER: Architect Vener J. Quizon

    PROJECT TITLE: Escuela Escolta Institute of Arts: Proposed Capitol Theatre Cumulative
    Revival Development

    RESEARCH FOCUS: Retro-Innovative Approach to a Green Architectural


    Conservation Development

    Retro-Innovation is a distinct form of innovation referencing past practices with new


    circumstances of the present.
    Retro-innovations roughly fall into three categories:
    1. Innovations that authentically mimic a product or experience of the past to
    transport the user back into a gone era.
    2. Innovations that use a nostalgic format to meet a new need.
    3. Innovations that use a new format to meet an old need.

    WHAT IS THE PROJECT ABOUT?

    It is undeniable that the society is continuously transformed in a dramatically rapid


    pace through the course of time. Being bound with the tastes of society itself, the
    architectural environment is no different as it is consistently synchronized with this change.

    Contemporary buildings, due to the continuous thrive in technology, are unceasingly


    evolving and innovating, monumentally representing the progress both society and the
    architecture field itself. This progress, however, is an underlying challenge to the existing
    built-up environment particularly those considered to be historically and culturally
    significant. They are faced with the pressure of keeping up with the implied standards of the
    modern architectural world while preserving its original character and representing its
    historical timeline. Because most of them have been dormant and physically dilapidated over
    the years, they are put at risk in being replaced by a modern development; thus, making their
    cultural significance an afterthought. In that sense, it is evident that there is a superficial gap
    between the existing and the new architectural developments as they appear to be two
    conflicting typologies in different aspects. Despite their clashing nature, the two are equally
    significant in the architectural environment and even in the society itself.

    With that, the proposed study shall provide a deeper perspective in the matter,
    inquiring the appropriateness of the existing built-environment with the newer, modern
    development and vice versa and then shall attempt to find a common ground between the
    two. The application of the study shall take place in an architectural design involving the two
    typologiesan existing and a new buildingin a single building. In other words, the
    development shall be cumulative in naturegoing beyond a heritage building restoration and
    extending towards its integration with a new building in order to become a new coherent
    whole.

    The project shall be sited in Escolta Street, a strip previously considered to be the
    central district of the past; that today is perceived to be a potential art and culture hub in
    Manila. Escolta Street embodies several decades worth of history with the iconic buildings
    of its time lining its extents. In the study, Escolta shall represent the prominent character of
    the projects marco-environment. The proposed architectural development shall be a
    Specialized Institute of Arts which shall provide specialized art courses varying visual arts,
    dance, music, and etc to the higher education level inclusive of the senior high school and
    college students. It shall take an existing building which shall be restoredthe Capitol
    Theater by Juan Nakpilto operate in its original function. From there, it shall be integrated
    with a new building to be established in the site directly adjacent to itthe Old PNB
    Building/City College of Manila which at the moment is undergoing demolition. As whole,
    the end-design rationale is expected to be simultaneously heritage-sensitive, time-appropriate,
    and architecturally-innovative.

    The proposed development is expected to strengthen the new image of its immediate
    environment, the rest of Escolta Street, being an art and cultural hub of the city. Furthermore,
    it shall provide a solid populace of students which will promote activity and will encourage
    the development of businesses in the area, creating economic progress and practically breathe
    a new life to whole of the Escolta Street. (C-1 Development Schools)

    LOCATION: The project shall be sited in Escolta Street particularly the Capitol Theater and
    the demolished site of the Old PNB Building.

    TARGET USERS:
    PRIMARY: Incoming Senior High School Students taking on the Design Track,
    Student in the College Level, Enrollees in Art Short Course, School Faculty.
    SECONDARY: School Administration personnel
    TERTIARY: Prospect audience in occasional artistic recitals and exhibits.
    NO. OF USERS: (approximate no.) 1000

    OWNER(S) OR CLIENT(S): NCCA, City Government of Manila, Private Entity

    PROJECT OBJECTIVE(S):
    1. To contribute to the efforts of the preservation of architectural works of significant
    heritage value.
    2. To strengthen the artistic and cultural character of Escolta Street in the
    contemporary setting.
    3. To initiate urban revitalization and eradicate urban blight within the area.
    4. To promote activity to the strip and spring economic progress.

    BUDGET/FINANCING SCHEME: The project shall be a public-private venture with the


    combined effort of the NCCA, City Government of Manila and a private investor. Budget is
    still to be decided.

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