Our first attempt at designing large-scale structures introduces the strategy of modular multiplication.  Beginning with a single generic unit, the appropriate adjustments and alterations are applied after the site’s coordinates are given.  In this case the location is a large plot of open, flat ground unique to its dense urban surroundings.  Although, more fascinating is the monolithic steel railroad trestle that cuts through the first third of this lot.  The opportunity to invade the leftover space underneath and between the bridge’s structure makes this building’s placement an obvious decision.  So, what does it mean to design a hotel for transient artists who live publicly, detached from the place they call home?  For this project the answer is for an architecture that performs.  The idea is that attention typically directed to the person is instead shifted toward the building as a means for distracting the onlooking paparazzi.  The hydraulic movement of each rooms’ core also serves the reverse purpose.  Those artists who prefer to remain in the spotlight are able to transplant their desires to the architecture and extend beyond the default facade.  As well as a visual mapping of the hotel’s approximate vacancy, the expansion of the cores gains valuable real estate inside each unit which reveals other room necessities.  Organizationally, the public entrance and communal amenities sit in front of the animated backdrop, while circulation, parking, and other services rest along the opposing elevation.  As city traffic passes under the bridge next to the hotel, passengers are given a brief cross section of the design from the perspective of its audience as well as its performers.