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Luminato Festival at The Hearn
Luminato Festival at The Hearn
Toronto, Canada
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Luminato Festival at The Hearn
Toronto, Canada
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2016
SIZE
300,000 sqft - 500,000 sqft
For 17 days, Luminato Festival 2016 at The Hearn Generating Station was the story of urban transformation, cultural activation, public accessibility, and civic celebration. As the lead designers, PARTISANS helped repurpose the decommissioned power plant, a striking monument to a bygone industrial era, to celebrate the energy of art and urban regeneration through adaptive reuse.
At 650,000 cubic feet of interior space and 400,000 square feet of usable floor space, The Hearn is 2.5 times the size of the Tate Modern and Canada’s largest enclosed space. Working on an aggressive schedule and with a limited budget, PARTISANS’ role was to lead the masterplanning of the 22-acre site, shepherd the project through municipal and provincial approvals, and design for the existing infrastructure, which entailed adaptive and flexible designs for programs of different scales and kinds, including: a 1500-seat theatre made of shipping containers; a 6000-person music venue for the Unsound Music Festival and other performances; a virtual art gallery; ticketing; restaurants, bars, lounges, and back-of-house support areas; vertical and horizontal circulation; exterior spaces and pathways; and public bathrooms.
Using shipping containers, scaffolding, and a lighting design that helped amplify the striking scale and features of The Hearn, our designs deferred to the industrial character of the building while optimizing the found space for flexible programming, honouring the spirit of Cedric Price’s Fun Palace. To create facilities for multi-disciplinary performances, The Hearn needed to be transformed from a dilapidated site with no running water or electricity into a safe, accessible, and inclusive space for design, artistic, cultural, and virtual interventions and conversations about the future of Toronto.
Luminato 2016 was an unprecedented success; it broke all previous attendance records and attracted visitors and media coverage from around the world.
At 650,000 cubic feet of interior space and 400,000 square feet of usable floor space, The Hearn is 2.5 times the size of the Tate Modern and Canada’s largest enclosed space. Working on an aggressive schedule and with a limited budget, PARTISANS’ role was to lead the masterplanning of the 22-acre site, shepherd the project through municipal and provincial approvals, and design for the existing infrastructure, which entailed adaptive and flexible designs for programs of different scales and kinds, including: a 1500-seat theatre made of shipping containers; a 6000-person music venue for the Unsound Music Festival and other performances; a virtual art gallery; ticketing; restaurants, bars, lounges, and back-of-house support areas; vertical and horizontal circulation; exterior spaces and pathways; and public bathrooms.
Using shipping containers, scaffolding, and a lighting design that helped amplify the striking scale and features of The Hearn, our designs deferred to the industrial character of the building while optimizing the found space for flexible programming, honouring the spirit of Cedric Price’s Fun Palace. To create facilities for multi-disciplinary performances, The Hearn needed to be transformed from a dilapidated site with no running water or electricity into a safe, accessible, and inclusive space for design, artistic, cultural, and virtual interventions and conversations about the future of Toronto.
Luminato 2016 was an unprecedented success; it broke all previous attendance records and attracted visitors and media coverage from around the world.
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