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The Shed
The Shed
New York, NY, United States
Finalist, 2020 A+Awards, Cultural - Museum
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The Shed
New York, NY, United States
Finalist, 2020 A+Awards, Cultural - Museum
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2019
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
Photography: © Timothy Schenck
THE SHED + ARCHITECTURE
When deployed, the Shed's shell creates a 17,200-square-foot light-, sound-, and temperature-controlled hall that can serve an infinite variety of uses. The hall can accommodate an audience of 1,200 seated or 2,700 standing; flexible overlap space in the two adjoining galleries of the base building allows for an expanded audience in the hall of up to 3,000. The shell’s entire ceiling operates as an occupiable theatrical deck with rigging and structural capacity throughout. Large operable doors on the Plaza level allow for engagement with the public areas to the east and north when open.
When the Shed's shell is nested over the base building, the 19,500-square-foot plaza will be open public space that can be used for outdoor programming; the eastern façade can serve as a backdrop for projection with lighting and sound support. The Plaza is equipped with distributed power supply for outdoor functions.
THE SHED + HISTORICAL NYC
The building is able to expand and contract by rolling the telescoping shell on rails. The Shed’s kinetic system is inspired by the industrial past of the High Line and the West Side Railyard. Through the use of conventional building systems for the fixed structure and adapting gantry crane technology to activate the outer shell, the institution is able to accommodate large-scale indoor and open-air programming on demand.
The Shed takes inspiration, architecturally, from the Fun Palace, the influential but unrealized building-machine conceived by British architect Cedric Price and theater director Joan Littlewood in the 1960s. Like its precursor, The Shed’s open infrastructure can be permanently flexible for an unknowable future and responsive to variability in scale, media, technology, and the evolving needs of artists.
The Shed’s back-of-house spaces, which include offices, mechanical spaces, dressing rooms, and storage, are located on Level 1 and the lower levels of the residential tower to the west, 15 Hudson Yards (designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Lead Architect and Rockwell Group, Lead Interior Architect). This allows the bulk of The Shed’s base building to be devoted to programmable space for art.
Lead Architect: DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO
Collaborating Architect: ROCKWELL GROUP
Structural Engineer: THORNTON TOMASETTI
Kinetic Systems Consultant: HARDESTY & HANOVER
MEP & Fire Protection: JAROS BAUM & BOLLES
Energy Modeling Consultant: VIDARIS
Lighting Consultant: TILLOTSON DESIGN ASSOCIATES
Acoustics / Audio / Visual Consultant: AKUSTIKS
Theater Consultant: FISHER DACHS
Structural Steel Fabricator: CIMOLAI
Construction Manager: SCIAME CONSTRUCTION, LLC
Foil Cushions: Texlon ® ETFE by Vector Foiltec, Bremen/DE
THE SHED + ARCHITECTURE
When deployed, the Shed's shell creates a 17,200-square-foot light-, sound-, and temperature-controlled hall that can serve an infinite variety of uses. The hall can accommodate an audience of 1,200 seated or 2,700 standing; flexible overlap space in the two adjoining galleries of the base building allows for an expanded audience in the hall of up to 3,000. The shell’s entire ceiling operates as an occupiable theatrical deck with rigging and structural capacity throughout. Large operable doors on the Plaza level allow for engagement with the public areas to the east and north when open.
When the Shed's shell is nested over the base building, the 19,500-square-foot plaza will be open public space that can be used for outdoor programming; the eastern façade can serve as a backdrop for projection with lighting and sound support. The Plaza is equipped with distributed power supply for outdoor functions.
THE SHED + HISTORICAL NYC
The building is able to expand and contract by rolling the telescoping shell on rails. The Shed’s kinetic system is inspired by the industrial past of the High Line and the West Side Railyard. Through the use of conventional building systems for the fixed structure and adapting gantry crane technology to activate the outer shell, the institution is able to accommodate large-scale indoor and open-air programming on demand.
The Shed takes inspiration, architecturally, from the Fun Palace, the influential but unrealized building-machine conceived by British architect Cedric Price and theater director Joan Littlewood in the 1960s. Like its precursor, The Shed’s open infrastructure can be permanently flexible for an unknowable future and responsive to variability in scale, media, technology, and the evolving needs of artists.
The Shed’s back-of-house spaces, which include offices, mechanical spaces, dressing rooms, and storage, are located on Level 1 and the lower levels of the residential tower to the west, 15 Hudson Yards (designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Lead Architect and Rockwell Group, Lead Interior Architect). This allows the bulk of The Shed’s base building to be devoted to programmable space for art.
Lead Architect: DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO
Collaborating Architect: ROCKWELL GROUP
Structural Engineer: THORNTON TOMASETTI
Kinetic Systems Consultant: HARDESTY & HANOVER
MEP & Fire Protection: JAROS BAUM & BOLLES
Energy Modeling Consultant: VIDARIS
Lighting Consultant: TILLOTSON DESIGN ASSOCIATES
Acoustics / Audio / Visual Consultant: AKUSTIKS
Theater Consultant: FISHER DACHS
Structural Steel Fabricator: CIMOLAI
Construction Manager: SCIAME CONSTRUCTION, LLC
Foil Cushions: Texlon ® ETFE by Vector Foiltec, Bremen/DE
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