EMPAC. Experimental Media And Performing Arts Center at Troy in New York by Grimshaw Architects
EMPAC is a cutting-edge experimental performing arts venue currently being designed by the Grimshaw New York team for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
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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.'
Completion: 2008
