Located beneath the award-winning Student Learning Centre (SLC), this purpose-built fit-out features modern and accessible performance, production and learning spaces. The facility amalgamates the acting, dance and production programs, allowing for a cross-pollination of students within the faculty.
The design features two spung-floor dance studios, a multi-purpose acting studio, a flexible 75-seat black box theatre free of sightline obstructions, a sound and lighting booth, production and teaching wardrobe areas, a lighting and sound lab and a street-level box office.
With a complex program and a limited area, the vertical space was carefully designed to allow for minimum clearances required in the performance studios. The existing double-height shelled space was strategically bisected with the inclusion of a mezzanine level which allows barrier free access to the sound and lighting control booths. The interstitial spaces were creatively designed to house equipment without limiting the size of the studios.
