While trying to understand the expressionism in films such as "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and the paranoia in films such as "Metropolis", "Rosemary's Baby", "Rear Window" and "Hiroshima, mon amour" I realised the importance of recognising the protagonist in each case. The protagonist in our brief is the visitor to the film centre in Sheffield. In this context, studying Sheffield's History and watching short films and "Threads" about the Sheffield Blitz helped me connect everything and decided to make my building about understanding the Paranoia of the War (Sheffield Blitz) through an expressionistic style building that would reveal gradually layers of information to the protagonist-visitor. This is what is the conceptual model about: firstly seeing texts, newspapers and reading information about the war and moving towards the core of the building going through photographs and getting finally shocked watching the film footage in a cinema room that will complete the experience. The building is not meant to be a comfortable journey; it will be uncomfortable in a similar way that the protagonists in "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" were forced to follow. Following this logic and recognising the historical context of the site (a bombed dropped just metres away from the site and a near-by building was an air-raid underground shelter) it only makes sense for the building to be in the form of a shelter, having everything underground and using the ground floor for an outdoor event space. In order to accomodate everything the building might go as deep as 4 floors underground giving a more dramatic feel for the protagonists-visitors of the building.
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