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Area
45,000 sf
As an object atop the ridge, the new building will be comfortable, low, and gentle, masking its size with separate smaller volumes and materials that will reduce its scale.
Their culture of performance programs will require a traditional and intimate proscenium theater, but the concept design allows an open and flexible arrangement of rehearsal rooms with ‘garage doors’ to encourage experimentation and flexibility of use.
The concept design for the new building is based upon maximizing that experience, in activating the pathways to it and through it—as well as orienting the primary spaces within.
Located somewhat remote from the main campus cluster, the site has an amazing panorama of the Potomac River.
Performing Arts Center
The Madeira School
This respected suburban Washington DC independent girls’ school has outgrown its aging performing arts center and is exploring a partial or full replacement. Programs for the arts are gaining in popularity and enrollment, presenting the need for more sophisticated theater venues as well as more rehearsal and teaching spaces for acting, stagecraft, dance, choral and instrumental music. To achieve the most value as an investment for the school, the proposed facility will host a broad range of events, from all-school presentations, lectures, alumni gatherings, recruitment, parties and conferences—made all the more memorable from the dramatic campus site.