Performing Arts Center

The sport centre by JPDA in New York features two studios that are flexibly divided and can open up to one large dance stage with blackout curtains at performance time.

Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture, Performing Art Center, New York, 2017
Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture (JPDA) has completed the new Dwana Smallwood Performing Arts Center (DSPAC) – a community resource that celebrates dance education in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Located in a former industrial building, JPDA developed a series of dramatic architectural interventions that transform the exterior and create bright, airy and playful dance studios, offices, a library, and dressing rooms for the bustling families that arrive each day.

 

The entrance is announced by a suspended canopy, via glass doors flanked by 3-d sculpted concrete panels and a marquee that establish the abstract vocabulary of undulating energy and movement. The stairwell and second floor reception are clad in dimensional CNC-milled lacquered panels that conceal storage, signage and lighting. The circular ripple motif carries through to a colorful and warm library that provides comfortable seating and a social gathering space. The area creates an oasis of calm for reading and stretching, as well as social space for connecting with friends and neighbors. Open, bright studios with sprung floors and glowing skylights are the focus for dancers. The two studios are flexibly divided and can open up to one large dance stage with blackout curtains at performance time.

Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture, Performing Art Center, New York, 2017
Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture, Performing Art Center, New York, 2017

Performing Art Center, New York
Program: sport center
Architect: Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture
Design team: Jordan Parnass, Mithila Poojari, Lucie Tomastikova, John Baker, Philip M. Weller, Dimiti Kim, Carlos Gastelum, Chris Nelson
Installations: EP Engineering
Structural engineering: A Degree of Freedom
Completion: 2017

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