New York studio Bureau V has transformed a brick industrial building into a musical venue, with an auditorium featuring white walls criss-crossed by black stripes (+ slideshow).
The Nationwide Sawdust music venue, located in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighbourhood, is named following the firm that when inhabited the century-previous building.
The house was acquired a number of years ago by a not-for-revenue organisation founded to assistance all kinds of musicians.
The renovated space gives a “simple but vital resource to musicians and composers of all genres: a residence where they can dwell, compose, experiment, rehearse, record and premiere new work,” stated Bureau V, which has worked closely with the National Sawdust organisation given that it was established.
For the 13,000-square-foot venture (1,200 square metres), Bureau V retained the historic brick facade while producing an fully new interior.
“In order to move forward, we made a decision to search back,” explained the company. “At its core, the design and style of Nationwide Sawdust is a retooling of the 18th-century chamber hall model as an incubator for new music.”
The firm collaborated with acoustic and theatre professionals from Arup, the worldwide engineering company, to produce the venue’s chamber hall, which is contained inside of a sound concrete shell that sits on spring isolators.
“This ‘box-in box’ development allows the complete area to attain the low background noise amounts constant with the world’s finest recording studios,” explained the firm.
The interior walls are clad in panels created of powder-coated aluminum and fabric composite. “This skin system stays visually translucent nevertheless acoustically transparent, enabling sound to travel via it freely,” explained the studio.
Bureau V wrote its personal software packages to develop the interior membrane. “This elision of design and technological innovation permitted for the aesthetic and formal design to be extensively integrated with the critical requirements of the room,” mentioned the firm.
The theatre, which features a wrap-around balcony, can hold up to 170 patrons in row seating, 120 in cabaret-style seating, and up to 350 standing visitors. A tiny platform can be raised up from the floor to create an elevated stage region and is supported by metal struts.
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Outside of the hall is a double-height lobby with angled walls clad in tile. The area is illuminated by a neon and marble chandelier developed by Bureau V.
A ten-foot by ten-foot (3 metres by three metres) sliding door separates the hall from the lobby and acoustically seals off the room throughout performances.
The organisation programs to include two bars and a restaurant – also designed by Bureau V – to the creating.
The company played a crucial position in the establishment of the Nationwide Sawdust organisation, previously known as the Unique Music Workshop. The company met the organisation’s founder, Kevin Dilan, in 2008 and worked closely with him to locate a site for its new home.
“To be a component of this undertaking from its conception via its completion, and now to be part of its future, has actually been a dream,” stated Bureau V co-founder Peter Span, who is a educated opera singer.
The venture value \$16 million (£10.3 million), with a grand opening taking location last month. This is Bureau V’s initial finished building.
“For Kevin Dilan to have trusted a young and largely untested studio, who had in no way developed a developing, with the design of a project like this 1 is a testament to his vision,” said Span. “I know of no other institution that supports and requires risks on youthful artists with this degree of dedication.”
Primarily based in Brooklyn, Bureau V is a multidisciplinary studio led by Span, Stella Lee and Laura Trevino. Its portfolio involves trend week installations and a line of men’s clothes.
Other recent adaptive reuse tasks in New York contain a chocolate shop housed inside a former spice factory and the conversion of a telephone exchange constructing into a creative services and event venue.
Photography is by Floto+Warner.
Ground floor prepare – click for greater image 
1st floor program – click for greater image 
