Mit Music Theater Arts 345 Vassar Street Cambridge Ma 02139
Massachusetts Constitute of Technology
Theater Arts, Building W97
The rejuvenation of a sometime warehouse on Vassar Street creates a abode for MIT'southward vibrant Theater Arts program, a cardinal component of the Plant's world-renowned arts curriculum.
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Theater Arts, Building W97
345 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAStatus: Complete
Themes: Renovation and renewal
Sustainability
Enhancement of life and learning
Completion: 2017
The rejuvenation of a former warehouse on Vassar Street creates a home for MIT's vibrant Theater Arts programme, a key component of the Found's world-renowned arts curriculum.
Overview
Themes and priorities
Renovation and renewal
Sustainability
Enhancement of life and learning
Enrollment in MIT'south Theater Arts program has more than doubled in recent years. As it has grown, the program has become dispersed, occupying not only E33 (the Rinaldi Tile Building) but besides various other spaces around campus, including spaces in Walker Memorial, Building 4, Building 10, and Kresge Auditorium.
With E33 slated for demolition as part of MIT'due south Kendall Foursquare project, MIT had an opportunity to create a space that consolidates and anchors the Theater Arts program. This solution has taken shape within the walls of a one-time warehouse at 345 Vassar Street (W97).
To house and support the relocated Theater Arts program, W97's systems and infrastructure have been upgraded, and the interior at present includes rehearsal spaces, pattern and faculty studios, offices, costume and scene design shops, dressing rooms, and a two-story theater functioning space. The blueprint respects and integrates the original structure and its utilitarian ethos, providing flexible "blank slate" space that tin can be shaped and reshaped for specific performances and/or to arrange irresolute uses.
Sustainability was likewise a project priority, with the goal of achieving LEED Gilded certification. Sustainable elements include new windows and covering, a solar-gear up building, LED lighting with occupancy sensors, and upgraded HVAC systems.
Prototype credits
P. Vanderwarker, S. Sthankiya
Details
Address
345 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
School or Unit
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS)
Projection Team
Builder: designLAB Architects, Boston, Massachusetts
Engineering: Vanderweil Engineers, Boston, Massachusetts
Construction manager: Shawmut Pattern and Construction, Boston, Massachusetts
Sustainability consultant: New Ecology, Boston, Massachusetts; Andelman & Lelek Applied science, Norwood, Massachusetts
Acoustic consultant: Jaffe Holden, Norwalk, CT
Theater consultant: Fisher Dachs, New York, NY
MIT Team: Siobhan Carr, Thayer Donham, Monier Ouabira, Rich Quade, Sonia Richards, Marking Winter, Sarah Yazici
Design Features
- Theater and performance space (seats 150-180) that "pops up" higher up existing roofline to achieve two-story interior volume
- Adjustable movable seating and Masonite flooring in theater to enable staging flexibility
- Versatile audio and lighting pipe filigree in theater for adaptable configuration
- Acoustically engineered partitions for functioning and rehearsal spaces designed to absorb and control sounds
- Dressing rooms with showers and a green room for performers and artists
- Large rehearsal classrooms with sprung wooden floors to back up dancers; these rooms can double as performance studios
- Costume design classroom, shop, and storage
- Design studio and classroom, and a scene design and fabrication store that opens directly to a loading area on one side and the operation space on the other, making it easy to build and locate scenes
- Kinesthesia inquiry studios, seminar room, private offices, and shared open office space
- Ticket office, open lobby, and multi-stall restrooms to accommodate audiences
Sustainable Design Elements
- A sustainability-focused blueprint process, including multiple sustainability charrettes, life bicycle cost analysis, and a sustainability evaluation for all major (and several minor) design decisions – achieved through collaboration beyond the teams (MIT, architects, engineers, lighting designers, theater consultants, sustainability and energy consultants, and construction managers)
- Solar-ready edifice (entire roof is prepared, and interior space has been gear up aside)
- New roof with enhanced insulation organisation
- All new windows with free energy-efficient glazing systems
- New LED "house" lighting with occupancy controls where applicable, and a new dimmer-based operation lighting system with both LED and conventional fixtures
- All new loftier-efficiency HVAC equipment, including direct-expansion rooftop units and a high-efficiency condensing boiler, with command strategies optimized to reduce energy consumption
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Source: https://capitalprojects.mit.edu/projects/theater-arts-building-w97
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