Chelsea Center for the Performing Arts

Our proposal is a programmatic hybrid of performance and education which will attract even more creative and diverse individuals to the neighborhood of Chelsea, New York. Located between the Highline Elevated Park and the West Side Highway, our building is transforming between an organic rhythm to a more rigid structure, as a way to blend between the organic edge and the rigid grid of the west end of the site. The building consists of four major performance theaters ranging in scale to allow for multiple uses of performance. The theaters each have a very distinct identity which allows for the experience from Lobby to Theater to be unique to the user each time they return to see a new performance. The relationship between the Theater and the School is mixed to allow the students to be surrounded by a creative environment that will put them on display during their course of studies. Carefully blurring the boundaries between the school and the theaters allows for views behind the scenes which sets a stage of a unique experience for the students as well as the user by reversing the experience of a traditional theater.

Bryan Reitter
Satoshi Matsuzaki
Pratt Institute
Fall 2010 Hina Jamelle Studio

music : adagio for strings - barber