City Center for the Arts Michael Maltzan Campus Awarded the 2009 Rudy Bruner .
The new performing arts center will house SF State theater programs, music, dance and electronic arts and communication media.
The integration of a variety of academic and performance spaces, the building is marked by a unique set of theaters and courtyards - the creation of a permanent platform for multidisciplinary collaboration. Studies, workshops and curricular areas are grouped around the central volume of theaters, interlinked by roads which point the project of the courtyards in the center.
San Francisco State University unveiled designs for the Performing Arts Center Mashouf, a 242.150 square feet of state of the art facility that will transform the teaching of creative arts and performing arts at SF State and the entire region.
A waveform of the activity, the building is a symbol for the College, reflecting the different academic programs it houses. The Mashouf Performing Arts Center, designed by Los Angeles, Michael Maltzan Architecture, aims to inspire creativity and promote continuing artistic collaboration between the programs through expanded performance and educational spaces for students, as well as provide a space for the top of organizations performing arts region.
The building anchors the southwest corner of the campus of San Francisco State University is set to an iconic presence in the largest city and cultural community.
“We knew we needed to build a new classroom space, but we also wanted a calling card to solicit partnerships with public arts institutions. It needed to be an iconic building, and we had a real mandate to look for someone very forward-thinking about the arts and nonprofits in general,” shared Kurt Dawn, Dean of the College of Creative Arts.
As the day turns to night, lights up the glass building perimeter with activity, transmitting the pulse of creativity and inner life.
Source Throughout Boulevard, the building elevators, creating a big entrance. layered public, academic performance and spaces reinforce a sense of connection among students, teachers, amateur and community theater.
A 1,200 seat opera style theater is planned within the first phase of construction, and four smaller theaters will follow in two additional phases. The total 242,000 sqf Mashouf Performing Arts Center will also include programs for drama, dance, music, and broadcast journalism.
The $250 million performance education center is anticipating LEED Gold certification, hoping to break ground by 2013. This ambitious Art Center will first require 18.5 million to begin the first phase of construction (the school has already raised $12 million), and would like to complete all phases of construction within a nine year period.
Source Throughout Boulevard, the building of lifts up, creating a big entrance. layered public, academic performance and spaces reinforce a sense of connection among students, teachers, amateur and community theater.
The 300-seat Recital Hall Music offers a dynamic space for musical performance, the perfect extension of the surfaces that surround the public, with artists at its center.
The 1,200-seat theater supports a number of activities including music, theater, opera and dance, as well as serving as a forum for public debates and panel discussions.
The dynamic shape of the balconies of the theater fosters a sense of individual privacy, while knitting together public and artist.
Little Theatre offers an intimate atmosphere, where performer and audience share a single space bounded by arched seats rising from the floor of the stage and rolling up the network.
A series of ramps to facilitate universal access as the building collapsed, reinforcing the sense of connection and exchange among the diverse population and building various programs.
(Photos: Michael Maltzan)
