Pro-Arts Consortium

The Pro-arts consortium is an organization of 13 schools across the city of Boston. Despite representing some of the biggest schools in the area with a diverse range of subjects there is no physical location for students to intermingle and propagate ideas. This project was to create that nexus point where students and faculty from every school could come and practice their form of art. Some of the challenges faced was a diverse set of needs for each type of art, classrooms, music halls, theatres, each had to be picked carefully. This project also had to be LEED certified Gold minimum when working with the LEED v4 checklist. 

A quirk of the site is that it hovers over top of an existing subway rail challenging us to figure out a way to counter act ground vibrations coming from the trains. 

Located in the heart of Boston Massachusetts on a site fronting the high traffic Boylston street. The majority of the site itself is a below grade highway and train rail with preexisting structural walls that our building would have to sit on.

Finished construction floor plans.

As part of the LEED v4 checklist it was important to have sun screening. I used corten steel which is highly robust and locally manufactured and used a visual music computer language called midi to imprint the song of a well known Berkley school of music alumni. The Berkley school of music being apart of the Pro-Arts consortium.

The featured space in the project was the theatre. It is meant to be an impromptu space that would allow for concerts and small theatre productions.

These are construction details showing how we would mitigate vibration and noise coming from the highway below.

The project had to be LEED certified and so we worked with the LEED v4 checklist throughout the design. We achieved 94 points giving a rating of Platinum.