Epic EMPAC!

I have found an amazing Media and Arts Center to use as my main precedent study. It is the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Centre (EMPAC) in Troy, New York. It took nearly a decade to design and build this masterpiece! Grimsaw Architects (New York) designed a building that is "loud on the outside, quiet on the inside".




Although this university campas bulling is much larger in scale,2220 000sq foot, with a 1200 seater concert hall, and 3 x 400 seater theaters - the aspects that I will be taking from this building is the attention to detail. The building as the description says - is "quiet" and has amazing acoustics and the latest design technology in sound engineering. here are some pictures of the building. i love the "shoe-box" effect of the concert hall and how the large span of glazing envelopes it.