Saturday December 1st, 10:00am - 4:00pm, in the second floor gallery/hallway of the architecture building, participants of the USITT Student Design Competition are invited to an intensive design charrette.
Students from theatre, architecture, and other departments will be asked to share ideas on issues including: prospective building occupants' interactions with one another and the building, proposed building sites on campus, curricular goals within the new facility, architectural/theatrical presence/outreach in the community, and any unique needs or opportunities identified by the participants of the charrette. The charrette will be led by Assistant Professor Glenn NP Nowak with the following goals set as this session's 'destination':
+ working teams will be formed
+ teams will define/refine their philosophical approach to the design problem
+ teams will be able to articulate the 'ideal(S)' to which they will adhere (ex. experimental theatre in a space composed of experimental materials, on an experimental site...)
+ teams will select a site (potential options will be presented and discussed)
+ items to consider and small "assignments" will be brought forth prior to adjournment so as to enable positive production before our second charrette (week of 12/16).
Note: Bring pens, pencils, markers, notebooks, sketch books, examples of precedents, and ideas! Other activities will be confirmed as the date quickly approaches.
A short draft from theatre students of the written statment (described below) would be very beneficial at this first design charrette. If you cannot attend, please consider submitting a digital copy.
The program detail, areas, stage type and audience arrangement must be developed by the “Client” to reflect their department needs. The “Client” is to provide a written statement describing their College Theatre Department’s educational goals and needs of the teaching program. This can be made up or patterned after a real program.
2 comments:
i won't be able to attend on saturday but here's the list of things i'd like to contribute.
Hydraulic orchestra pit
Electrics on stage w/ cat walks over house (tall enough to stand upright)
No center isle through house, you lose the best seats
Male and Female dressing rooms, maybe upstage of the back wall on stage w/ entry way directly to stage w/ dark rooms
Makeup room connecting dressing rooms
Fly rail with 30-something flies at least
Stage opens directly into shop via loading doors
Shop has loading dock
green room across from makeup room
video monitoring system in booth to SL, SR, Green room, Makeup Room, back hallway?
Easy access from wings to downstage vom entrances
Clear com hard wired: both dressing rooms, makeup, green room, back hall, scene shop,
costume shop, td office, artistic director office, cat (for spots), sound, light, sm, stage R and L, and in lobby for house manager
wireless clear com (for crew) but may not be part of this?
large prop shop
prop storage in rehearsal space(s) and stage
i'll add to the list later tonight.
hey ashlee i am an architecture student, i was wondering if you are working on this with someone already. becouse i have an architecture partner but haven't had any luck with any theater students yet. so if your still interested let me know my email is:
ghanem06@gmail.com
maybe we could meet up, and work on this .
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