Radical Reconfigurability
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This week Ken and I are speaking with the leadership team responsible for the upcoming Brown University Performing Arts Center \\u2013\\xa0Joshua Ramus\\xa0of\\xa0REX,\\xa0Carl Giegold\\xa0of\\xa0Threshold Acoustics\\xa0and\\xa0David Rosenburg\\xa0of\\xa0Theatre Projects.\\xa0
The Brown University Performing Arts Center is a formally stunning project designed by REX for the Brown University campus in the relatively small town of Providence, Rhode Island. The exterior of the almost 100,000 square foot building consists of a large monolithic mass clad in aluminum, with a cantilevered glass-encased 13-foot tall clearstory jutting out from the lobby level, covering a lower-level outdoor public space.\\xa0
The interior of the Arts Center, however, is where the magic happens. To facilitate the university\\u2019s requirement to host performances for a variety of needs and audience sizes, REX and his team of theater and acoustics specialists designed a transformable concert hall that can accommodate five completely different configurations, from a small experimental sound cube for media performances, to a\\xa0625-seat symphony orchestra hall.
Our conversation starts with Joshua Ramus describing the conception of the project, starting with the client\\u2019s brief\\u2026\\xa0
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