The Architecture of EMPAC: The Tangible and the Tantalizing
- ISBN-10
- 0578072408
- ISBN-13
- 9780578072401
- Category
- Architectural acoustics
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oro Editions
- Authors
- Shirley Ann Jackson, Mark Mistur, Johannes Goebel
Description
EMPAC is a building like no other. The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Center (EMPAC) is an extraordinary instrument for artists and researchers alike. With its concert hall, a theater and experimental black box studios, EMPAC bridges the ever-expanding potential of digital technology with the most refined details for acoustics, visual production and performing arts. EMPAC is designed, without compromise, for technology and the human experience, ranging from performances and new productions in time-based arts to the creation and navigation of large-scale immersive environments by researchers and engineers. On the campus of the oldest technological university in the U.S., the vision of EMPAC synthesizes a grand architectural gesture with the complex requirements of a true interdisciplinary enterprise for the 21st century. By using a series of essays, drawings, images and team insights, Professor Mark Mistur takes us through the collaborative process of a world-class team – led by Grimshaw Architects, Kirkegaard Associates, Fisher Dachs Associates, Buro Happold engineers and the Architect of Record Davis Brody Bond Aedas with the owner’s team of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute under its President Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson – from concept to completion. Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson’s forward describes a vision for a 21st century research university and EMPAC as one instrument to enhance the culture of a polytechnic institute and to provoke innovation. An essay from EMPAC director Johannes Goebel focuses on the human dimension and the senses and the frontier of time-based arts. Essays by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, acoustician R. Lawrence Kirkegaard, theater design consultant Joshua Dachs and Grimshaw Architects’ partner involved in the project from beginning to end William Horgan, each examine the question of performance- based design integration and tell the stories of innovations that resulted from their various important points of view. The building and the book do more than promise results. Being in operation for two years at the conclusion of writing the Architecture of EMPAC, the book concludes with appendix complete with the events it has been home to, the artists who have been in residence and the new productions to date, parts of which are captured and included in a DVD.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Perceptual Aspects Of Sound Scattering In Concert Halls
By Renzo VitaleThis analysis will hereafter expand to a more complex scenario of a concert hall, namely the Konzerthaus Dortmund in Germany (Fig.6.10). After several years of planning and construction, this concert hall was officially opened in ...
-
RA, the Book: The Recording Architecture Book of Studio Design
By Roger D'Arcy, Hugh FlynnEstablished by Roger D'Arcy and Hugh Flynn on April 1st 1987 Recording Architecture has risen to become one of the premier recording studio design companies in the world.
-
Architectural Acoustics
By James P. Cowan, AcentechRepresenting a breakthrough in the practice of acoustical design, this two-CD-ROM set enables designers to preview sounds in a given space.
-
The Sounds of Stonehenge
By Stephen BanfieldThis volume takes an unusual angle on Britain's most famous prehistoric monument, sound and music.
-
Halls for Music Performance: Another Two Decades of Experience, 1982-2002
By Ian B. Hoffman, Christopher A. Storch, Timothy Foulkes"This book is a compilation of Halls for Music Performance which were presented as posters at the 141st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Chicago, June 2001, and the 143rd Meeting held in Pittsburgh, June 2002"--P. xi.
-
Ondes acoustiques
By Antoine ChaigneCet ouvrage s'adresse à des étudiants de maîtrise ou des grandes écoles.
-
Fundamentals of Acoustics
By Lawrence E. Kinsler, Austin R. Frey, Alan B. CoppensFundamentals of Acoustics
-
Lehrbuch der Bauphysik
By Heinz-Martin FischerLehrbuch der Bauphysik
-
Fire and Sound Control in Wood-Frame Multi-Family Buildings
By Michael, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, LioProduced for builders and designers, this 140 pages guide, with CD-ROM, describes how fire and sound move from one unit to another in multi-family buildings.