Projects \ Seaholm Performing Arts Center
To stimulate the current lakefront and city edge, the landscape plan extends the two environments of city and lake front into each other to activate the current underutilized and dormant edge. Each extension concludes with an icon, the Seaholm Performing Arts Center and City Hall Park. This project is an exploration of the city extension, which is sited across from the new library. Diagrammatically the building consists of four major moves: Extend. Fill. Connect. Landmark. In plan and section, the performing arts center is organized to receive its audience, transition them through a service corridor, and entertain them in large event spaces. The design will serve as an open stage for Austin’s diverse social and cultural identity to be displayed becoming an iconic landmark both aesthetically and experientially along Lady Bird Lake. The original concept focused on creating an iconic lantern from the view along the lake, extending the street level out, and creating a front yard on the east side of the building on lake level to act as the main reception. The west side is to be mostly dug into the hillside acting as the back of house. The building’s roof serves as the public plaza between the major developments in the Seaholm District of residences, the new library, and the Seaholm intake development.
Location Austin, TX
Class Design VI "Sound Building" - Spring 2016
Professor Gary Wang
Award UTSoA Design Distinction 2016