Studio Gang’s projected design for the inside of Hudson Valley Shakespeare Pageant’s new open-air theatre.
GARRISON, N.Y.: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Pageant (HVSF) and the structure and concrete design apply Studio Gang have unveiled the design for the corporate’s new house, which guarantees to be the primary purpose-built LEED Platinum theatre—i.e., constructed in keeping with the very best stage of “inexperienced constructing” certification—within the U.S. The 13,850-square-foot design will function a everlasting house for HVSF, which for many years staged its open-air productions of classics and new works in momentary tents at Boscobel Home and Gardens overlooking the Hudson River, and extra lately relocated to a brand new everlasting house within the hills above. The brand new construction is the centerpiece of HVSF’s dedication to sustainability and stewardship of the 98-acre campus gifted to the corporate in 2020 by philanthropist Chris Davis, and is slated for groundbreaking in 2024.
As a press launch places it, the brand new design brings “nature and artwork nearer collectively” with a “curved, timber-framed grid shell and timber columns” that “emerge from the panorama to create a dialogue with the Hudson Highlands. The stage’s proscenium arch is fastidiously oriented to border picturesque views of the Wey-Gat (or ‘Wind Gate’) of Storm King Mountain, the Hudson River, and Breakneck Ridge.”
Stated Studio Gang founding principal and companion Jeanne Gang in a press release, “Our design goals to assist the corporate construct on their strengths, with low-carbon structure that improves each day performance and amplifies the traditions that outline their open-air performances—just like the spectacular proscenium arch framing an iconic Hudson River view—in addition to create new alternatives for audiences and actors to work together earlier than and after the present.” She additionally highlighted the panorama design by Nelson Byrd Woltz, which is able to supplant the location’s water-intensive former golf course with restored native grasses and wetlands, “changing a monocultural garden with a biodiverse panorama that brings resiliency, wildlife, and seasonal magnificence for all to get pleasure from.”
Added inventive director Davis McCallum in a press release, “HVSF was given the extraordinary alternative—and problem—to determine a everlasting house that thought-about not solely the way forward for our theatre and the American theatre at massive, but in addition the pressing must reexamine our relationship with nature. Studio Gang and the staff have met the second with a design that isn’t solely visually gorgeous, but in addition supremely purposeful and sustainable in each sense.”
Anchored by an open-air theatre, the design employs a number of options to boost environmental efficiency, together with pure air flow and brise soleil methods, low embodied carbon construction and cladding, rooftop photo voltaic panels, and an intensive inexperienced roof, amongst different parts.
HVSF can also be the current recipient of a $10 million grant from New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) as a part of NYSCA’s 2023 Capital Enchancment Grants for Arts and Tradition. The fund’s function is to offer assets to cultural establishments for capital enhancements that can allow them to develop and maintain various programming, improve accessibility and environmental sustainability, generate and protect jobs, and contribute to the expansion of New York’s arts organizations. A good portion of the grant might be used to assist the development of the theatre, in addition to for the ecological restoration of the location, creating native meadows, new picnic lawns, and new ADA accessible pathways. These initiatives all align with HVSF’s dedication to reaching carbon neutrality for the campus by 2040.
HVSF’s 2024 summer time season will embody By the Queen by Whitney White, tailored from William Shakespeare’s Henry VI and Richard III, and directed by Shana Cooper; The Homicide of Roger Ackroyd by Heidi Armbruster, tailored from Agatha Christie and directed by Ryan Quinn; and Medea: Re-Versed by Luis Quintero, tailored from Euripides and directed by Nathan Winkelstein, co-produced with Crimson Bull Theater and Bedlam. All three productions will run in repertory all through the summer time below the corporate’s present tent.
Based in 1987, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Pageant (HVSF) is knowledgeable nonprofit theatre firm primarily based in Garrison, one hour north of Manhattan. Rooted within the panorama of the Hudson Valley, with the performs of William Shakespeare as their touchstone, HVSF engages the widest potential viewers in a theatrical celebration of our shared humanity. As of 2021, their funds was round $3.5 million.
Based and led by Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang is an structure and concrete design apply primarily based in Chicago, San Francisco, New York, and Paris. The agency’s initiatives vary from cultural facilities to strategic framework plans and high-rise towers, from the Richard Gilder Heart for Science, Training, and Innovation on the American Museum of Pure Historical past in New York, the Arkansas Museum of High quality Arts in Little Rock, the Arcus Heart for Social Justice Management in Kalamazoo, Mich., and Writers Theatre in Glencoe, Ailing.
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