The Colburn School has announced plans for a 100,000-square-foot campus expansion in Downtown Los Angeles designed by architect Frank Gehry.
A place for training musicians and dancers, the Colburn School enlisted Gehry Partners to build the Colburn Center – a significant expansion to its current facilities.
弗兰克·盖里在洛杉矶设计扩建了新的科尔本艺术中心学校
Frank Gehry has designed the new Colburn Center in Los Angeles
At the heart of the design is a performance space that is meant to increase the capacity of the school. Oriented around a 1,000-seat theatre, the design has both large and small-scale performance areas and training facilities.
"Their new hall is a major blessing for the music world of this city, and I am honored to be a part of it," said Gehry.
科尔本艺术中心是科尔本学校扩建项目的一部分
The Colburn Center is an expansion of the Colburn School's campus
The design is for a 100,000-square-foot (9,290-square-metre) expansion across the street from the school's current campus. It is expected to break ground in 2023 and open to the public in 2025.
Stepped down in line with the elevation, a series of opaque and transparent volumes make up the performance halls and training facilities. An expansive garden and public plaza will wrap around the building and will be oriented toward the complex towards the already existing structures of the school's campus.
方格网状布局的灯带将照亮整个公共广场
A trellis with lights will illuminate the public plaza
The large theatre, named Terri and Jerry Kohl Hall after the project's primary donors, will have an acoustic ceiling that resembles clouds. Two skylights will bring additional light into the space.
Identical in shape to Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall nearby, the theatre will have an orchestra pit but be reconfigurable to accommodate different kinds of performances.
A series of lifts enable these configurations which include a method to lift up the orchestra pit, built for 70 musicians, to be an extension of the audience seating.
The east side of the complex will be made of glass and host the dance studios, the largest of which is a studio theatre that will accommodate 100 people.
一间可容纳100人的剧场将通过玻璃窗向外开放
A 100-person studio theatre will be open to the outside with glass windows
这个项目将使盖里在该地区设计的建筑总数达到3个,这是他在世界上拥有建筑设计数量最多的区域。该工作室的综合用途开发项目The Grand正在建设中,与2003年完工的华特·迪士尼音乐厅(Walt Disney Concert Hall)隔街相接。
Having the studios opened up to the outside with the glass facade is meant to "provide a literal window into the beauty and rigor of dance training and performance", said Colburn.
This project will bring the total number of Gehry designs in the neighbourhood to three, the most of his buildings in one place in the world. The studio's The Grand mixed-use development is under construction across the street from the Walt Disney Concert Hall, which completed in 2003.
可灵活布局的主剧院将能够容纳约1000名客人
The configurable primary theatre will be able to accommodate 1,000 guests
For the acoustic aspects of the Colburn Center project, Gehry has consulted prior collaborators such as Yasuhisa Toyota of Nagata Acoustics and Michael Ferguson, principal of TheatreDNA.
Gehry previously worked with Nagata Acoustics to complete the New World Symphony in Florida in 2011. The architect's other ongoing projects include the Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi, which will also open in 2025.
The renderings are courtesy of Gehry Partners.