Jeffrey Sipprell

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April 12, 2006

Music Center - Massing Strategy

As previously blogged, the site for my final project in Greg Lynn's studio is downtown across from the Disney Concert Hall. It's a Music Center that is to contain 2 very sizable opera size theatres, one medium size dance theatre and one small black box theatre. Our initial exercise was to develop a parti and massing strategy that deals with the constraints of the site and program.

The strategy I presented, which was well received, was a hybrid of Millenium Park in Chicago and Yokohama's famous Port Terminal. One of the large opera theatres would become a large outdoor pavilion situated at the end of an urban park - sitting between the large mass of the Disney Concert Hall and the mass I intend to create at the other end of the site with the rest of the assigned program. The intention is to create an anchor on the other end of the site while allowing the conceptual draped form of the building and cascade down into the pavilion/park and reach out to Disney Concert Hall - thus creating an urban campus within the downtown area for the musical arts.

The project is a bit too horizontal right now and needs to get much more pronouned in height - particularly on the tower end of the site. Greg has suggested that I relocate the Hollywood Bowl and drape form over it as a way of beginning to deal with issues of scale and program. Here were some drawings:

Posted by jsipprell at April 12, 2006 12:24 AM

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