Lycée pour les arts de la performance / Performing arts school

SITE : Boston, USA
DATE : 2008
ARCHITECTE : Nicholas GILLILAND
MISSION : conception
PROGRAMME : Lycée pour les arts de la performance / Performing arts school

City/School: the performance begins on a dormant lot at the edge of downtown. Buses, workshops and basketball courts set the scene: a school whose framework simultaneously links-to and internalizes the city. Escalators, gangways and courts extend the public realm upward into a network of spaces for discussion and improvisation. The volumes of traditional performance nest within; classroom modules infill the voids as opportunities arise; operable wall panels allow students to create acoustic continuity or rupture between these figures, constantly folding and redoubling the limits of the performance. As the positions of spectator and performer are constantly mirrored, disciplinary frameworks find concrete expression. City and institution coalesce in performative experience.