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Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy Building, Architect, America
EMPAC Troy, New York : Architecture Information
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute : American DevelopmentDesign Architect:
Grimshaw
Project Partners: Vincent Chang, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Mark Husser, Andrew Whalley
Project Team: Simon Beames, Shane Burger, David Burke, Demetrios Comodromos, Chris Crombie, Nikolas Dando-Haenisch, Chris Duisberg, Matt Eastwood, Paulo Faria, William Horgan, Kirsten Lees, Melissa Lim, Theo Lorenz, Junko Nakagawa, Michael Pawlyn, Juan Porral
Architect of Record:
Davis Brody Bond, LLP (New York, NY)
Partners-in-Charge: J. Max Bond, Jr., FAIA / William Paxson, AIA
Project Manager: Ernesto Bachiller, AIA
Project Architect: Nathan Hoyt, AIA
Project Team: Steven J. Fischer, AIA, Robert Halverson, Dean Ficek, Marc Massay, Fareh Garba, Belinda Len, Fernando Hausch-Fenn, Richard Klibschon, Jon Edelbaum, Ying Li, Oliver Sippl, Mayine Yu, Dohhee Zhoung, Glenn O'Neill, Danny Papajic, Donald Nicoulin, Bruce Dole
Acoustician: Kirkegaard Associates (Chicago, IL)
Larry Kirkegaard, FASA, Hon. AIA, President and
Principal-in-Charge
Carl Giegold, AIA, Project Acoustician
Louie Sunga, AIA, Architectural Integration
Terry Tyson, P.E., Mechanical Noise and Vibration Control
Project Team: Tim Gulsrud, Jake Ament, Zackery
Belanger, Anthony Shou, Ben Willt
Audio and Video Systems:
Kirkegaard Associates (Chicago, IL)
Frans Swarte, Consultant
Project Team: Richard Laidman, Jonathan Darling, Joanne
Chang, Dennis Hoernig
Theatre Consultant:
Fisher Dachs Associates (New York, NY)
Joshua Dachs, Principal
Peter Rosenbaum, Project Manager
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold (New York, NY)
Services Engineer: Buro Happold (New York, NY)
Quantity Surveyor: Donnell Consultants Inc (Tampa, FL)
Construction Manager: Turner Construction Company
Landscape Architect: The Saratoga Associates (Saratoga Springs, NY)
Civil Engineer: Clough, Harbour & Associates LLP
Architectural Lighting: Office for Visual Interaction (New York, NY)
Fire Engineering: Arup Fire (New York, NY)
IT Consultant: Shen, Milsom & Wilke (New York, NY)
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center Troy - Building Information
Leadership:
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson
President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Johannes Goebel
Director, eMPAC
Design Architect:
GRIMSHAW
New York
Architect of Record:
Davis, Brody, Bond LLP
New York
Building Size:
221,200 gross sf
Construction Budget:
$141.7 million
Groundbreaking:
September 26, 2003
Opening Festival:
Fall 2008
Principal Performance Venues:
Concert Hall
11,500 sf (1,200 seats)
Theater
4,500 sf (400 seats)
Studio 1
3,500 sf (flexible seating for up to 240)
Studio 2
2,500 sf (flexible seating for up to 120)
Rehearsal Studio
1,500 sf
Artist-in-Residence Studios (4)
200 – 300 sf apiece
Previously:
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2001 Architecture Competition win
EMPAC images : Grimshaw
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York USA RPI_EMPAC_desc_0408 Page 1 of 1 EMPAC is a cutting-edge experimental performing arts venue currently under construction; the project was designed by Grimshaw for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
The building is located on a steep hillside at the west edge of the campus, overlooking Troy and the Hudson valley below. EMPAC will contain a 1,200-seat concert hall, a 400-seat theatre with flytower, two ‘black box’ studios, a dance studio, a suite of artist-in-residence workshops, and professional audio and video recording, editing and production facilities.
A rectangular south wing of the building, containing the more digitally oriented facilities, shields the atrium and public spaces from summer solar heat gain. The concert hall, clad entirely in western red cedar, dominates the north wing of the building and is visible to the outside through a dramatic 100-foot high glass curtain wall.
EMPAC’s mission is not only to provide an environment conducive to the generation of innovative digital work, but also to actively change perceptions about the nature of sound, vision and the human experiential condition. Its unique program, combining the highest quality venues suitable for the performance of both traditional and contemporary music, dance, theatre and visualization, will be unmatched by academic institutions elsewhere in the world.
EMPAC images : Grimshaw
Performing Arts Centre – EMPAC Troy images / information from Grimshaw
New York Architecture - Manhattan
EMPAC Troy : main page
EMPAC Troy - Building Information
Contract Value: US$140m
Area: 19,120 sq m/ 202,000 sqft
Status: Under construction
Design Start Date: 06/2001
Site Start Date: 01/2004
Completion Date: 10/2008
Client: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
EMPAC Troy architect : Grimshaw
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