National Sawdust is a resource for young musicians and composers of new classical, jazz and experimental music to perform and record their work. Its centerpiece is an acoustically-driven chamber music hall consisting of a double-height space with surrounding balcony that will seat approximately 200 patrons. Conceived as a facetted jewel set within the rough brick envelope of a former sawdust factory, the venue seeks to combine the historic European concert hall model with the late barebones blackbox model, where the crafted beauty of the former meets the experimental programming and roughness of the latter.