Columbia University School of the Arts / Programming & Feasibility Study

Columbia University School of the Arts Space Programming & Feasibility Study

This Study was made possible by a generous grant from The Gatsby Charitable Foundation

Background

Columbia University’s School of the Arts is an innovative, graduate professional school suffused with a long-standing tradition of aesthetic risk-taking and grounded in a deeply intellectual Ivy League university. Today, the School serves 836 Master of Fine Arts students in Film, Theatre, Visual Arts and Writing, and Master of Arts students in Film Studies from 41 countries, 481 of whom are engaged in full-time course work and 365 of whom are engaged in the preparation of their theses with the support of faculty tutorials, master workshops and access to equipment and facilities. The School’s faculty also teaches more than 1,600 undergraduate students each year.

The School’s primary asset is its faculty, several of whom have received the highest honors in their fields including Academy Awards, Tony Awards, MacArthur Fellowships, Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and the Nobel Prize for Literature. From the Sundance Film Festival to the Venice Biennale, from the cover of the New York Times Book Review to Broadway, from America’s most established regional theaters to Europe’s and Asia’s most renowned film and theater festivals, the success of the School’s faculty and alumni has never before been as prominent and celebrated.

The School has achieved this excellence and stature in spite of limited physical resources. Unlike its peer institutions, Columbia is an academic and research university located within the vibrant urban metropolis of New York City, a location of unparalleled cultural and artistic resources, but also one with a perennial shortage of space.

A significant challenge for the School is the lack of adequate space for its programs. The School’s

spaces are currently dispersed across 11 locations between 112th Street and 133rd Street, and the lack of a unified physical presence impacts the School’s sense of community, exchange of ideas, interdisciplinary activity, and the ability to operate efficiently.

Each division of the School has particular space and infrastructure challenges; Visual Arts lacks adequately sized studios, production facilities and exhibition spaces; Theatre has insufficient performance and shop space; Film has inadequate production and screening facilities; and Writing requires a large lecture hall for readings and adequate seminar rooms. The School also lacks a sufficient number of offices for faculty and administration, and space for community interaction.

An Unprecedented Opportunity for the Arts at Columbia

Upon his arrival in 2002, President Lee Bollinger grasped the most pressing issue for Columbia University: the lack of space for the University’s world-class students and faculty. The Trustees supported the President’s strategy of creating additional campus space in the area known as Manhattanville, a 17 acre site in West Harlem between 125th and 133rd Street, and Broadway and 12th Avenue along with the lots on the east side of Broadway between 131st and 134th Street. Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill were commissioned to create a master plan for the site. This master plan was completed in 2005 and sets the framework for the redevelopment that will take place over the next three decades.

The University envisions new buildings for research, graduate and professional schools, and spaces for the arts. The plan for Manhattanville aims to

transform the area into a cohesive, reanimated center for educational, commercial and community life that includes new retail, cultural and community facilities along Twelfth Avenue, Broadway, and 125th Street.

From the outset, the President established that one of the cornerstones for the Manhattanville campus would be the creation of a precinct for the arts along 125th Street. Thus, the University has an unprecedented opportunity to create exciting new workspaces and venues for the School of the Arts and to open up a highly visible arts district, making Columbia an integral partner with its Harlem neighbors in creating a vibrant cultural community in northern Manhattan.

Columbia’s plan for the arts is to build a small state-of-the-art flexible venue — a Renzo Piano signature design, currently called the Lantern — and, in a later phase of development, to renovate two existing buildings on the south side of 125th Street, Prentis Hall and a portion of 560 Riverside Drive. The plan also provides for the expansion and relocation to 125th street of the University’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, which presents exhibitions and related programming that reflect the diversity of approaches to the arts at Columbia.

The Lantern, planned for the first phase of development, has the capacity to transform the School of the Arts. It is envisioned to serve as a versatile and technologically advanced interdisciplinary venue with highly visible spaces for public presentations. It will provide custom designed venues to promote collaboration and to support live performance and screenings and attract an everwidening audience to the University.

As funds become available, Prentis Hall, and possibly the base of 560 Riverside Drive, will be transformed into a versatile and technologically

advanced production and instructional facility, a laboratory where artists, scholars, filmmakers, directors and actors can experiment with forms and blend disciplines and ideas. The renovation will provide an environment that nurtures a more cohesive community of faculty and students, with highly visible spaces conducive to presentations, informal gatherings and spontaneous interaction. Classrooms, offices and production spaces will be arranged to promote interdisciplinary collaboration, while individual studios will support research and exploration.

The University’s commitment to the arts also encompasses Miller Theatre on the Morningside campus. Its adventuresome performances of contemporary classical music, opera, and dance have established it as a nationally recognized cultural center for artistic discovery. In time, it is envisioned that Miller Theatre will be renovated into a more suitable, technologically sophisticated and flexible theatre with 400-seat capacity.

Together, the Lantern and Miller Theatre, two venues easily accessible by subway, will position Columbia as a cultural nexus for Manhattan’s Upper West Side, cultivating an ever-widening audience along with patrons and friends for the University, and showcasing the work of Columbia faculty, students, alumni and world-renowned guest artists.

The University’s expansion into Manhattanville will position Columbia to become a major incubator and presenter of new creative work for the city and the world. This is an appropriate role for Columbia, a leading research university and the only Ivy League university located in New York City — one of the greatest art centers of the world.

Planning & Feasibility Study

Overview

In March 2008 the Gatsby Charitable Foundation generously offered to fund a space planning and feasibility study for the School of the Arts and in 2008-09, the University engaged the architectural firm of Davis Brody Bond Aedas to undertake the study and to examine the opportunity presented by the University’s expansion into Manhattanville.

The firm worked with the School of the Arts and Columbia University Facilities to confirm the School’s space requirements, to propose uses for both new and existing facilities, and to develop space requirements for the relocation and expansion of the University’s Wallach Gallery. The theatre-consulting firm of Fisher Dachs Associates was retained to recommend a series of options that would reconfigure Miller Theater to provide a more suitable performance space, and upgrade and improve the support areas.

The study was completed in the spring of 2009 and its recommendations are contributing to the University’s long range plan to advance the arts. The planning and feasibility study is also helping to shape Columbia University’s first major campaign for the arts.

The conceptual plan outlined in the study recommends uses for new and renovated facilities that will allow the School to meet current shortfalls in space and to vacate inadequate, remote facilities and rental spaces. The plan proposes to reorganize and to co-locate production, presentation and support spaces in close proximity, and it identifies cost effective options that respect the historic character and typology of existing buildings. It also provides flexible spaces to accommodate the changing nature of artistic production and the cross-disciplinary potential of the School’s educational programs.

By clustering production and presentation facilities for the arts in Manhattanville along with strategic renovations at the historic Morningside campus, including the reconfiguration of the Miller Theatre, the plan creates two major nodes of activity to support the arts and promote the cultural life of the University.

The “Lantern” building, a signature building designed by Renzo Piano will serve as a gathering place and focal point for the new Manhattanville campus. Adjacent to an outdoor public plaza, the Lantern is

envisioned to contain flexible performance, installation and presentation spaces, screening rooms for film, lectures and symposia, and rehearsal spaces. Two existing buildings on the south side of 125th Street, Prentis Hall and the lower four floors of 560 Riverside Drive, are proposed for renovation and will accommodate workshops, classroom studios, individual studios, and rehearsal spaces. A series of interim upgrades for Prentis are suggested in the plan to allow for more effective use of the facility until a full renovation can be undertaken. Space for an expanded Wallach Gallery is provided for on the north side of 125th Street opposite Prentis Hall and 560 Riverside Drive.

GOALS

Interdisciplinary Collaboration — The Art School of the Future

Although practitioners will still need to have deep vertical bodies of knowledge at their disposal, they will also need to develop skills to collaborate, improvise and experiment across disciplines. They are going to need to be flexible and to move across cultures, philosophies, and differences to succeed in the future. They will need to be adaptable to relocation and re-education so that they can move, literally and metaphorically, as opportunities arise.

Artists, of all people, should be those whose ability to think globally and locally and in many forms is most developed. As they cross cultural boundaries, they should be the ones to see those liminal spaces within which they can experiment. To learn such skills artists need to work across forms, to be aware of such differences.

With adequate space, the School of the Arts will become the site for many types of innovative collaborations which will benefit all Columbia students as they come to understand that the University is a site for the production of new culture, as well as the site for research and theorizing about its production.

— Carol Becker, Dean, School of the Arts

The School of the Arts is currently organized into four distinct Programs and within these, thirteen Concentrations, each with its own very distinct pathway of study and course requirements. There is very little opportunity for students to study across Programs or even Concentrations. For example, students working with moving image in Visual Arts have no opportunity to study with Film faculty; theatre and film artists — directors, actors and writers — have few opportunities to collaborate and develop cross disciplinary skills.

The art school of the future will be a place where artists trained in a variety of disciplines can work collaboratively; it will be a place where artists and scientists, artists and social theorists, artists and city planners, as well as artists and architects come together to play, experiment, and exchange ideas. In order to maximize its collective intellectual and creative assets to educate the next generation, it is necessary for the University develop more collaborative and interdisciplinary opportunities.

To be such a site, the School of the Arts will need adequate studios and presentation venues that invite the most creative thinkers and creators working in different disciplines to come together to plan, to create and to experiment. Conversations among faculty are beginning to lead to more opportunities for interdisciplinary study every semester. Over the next few years, these conversations will flourish and result in new curricular developments and in more collaborative engagement as faculty in the arts, architecture, art history, engineering, music, the sciences and humanities engage in an exchange of ideas, knowledge and forms.

Undergraduate Program Development

Columbia is uniquely suited to develop a premier undergraduate program in the arts that provides sustained, structured dialogue between thinking and making, research and artistic production. SoA faculty welcome the opportunity to expand possibilities in the arts for undergraduate arts majors, and to work with Columbia College, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, the College of General Studies, and Barnard College to further students’ abilities to provide creative opportunities for undergraduate students

to organize perceptions and conceptualizations in multiple forms.

Access to better-equipped production and post-production facilities is essential for undergraduates to work creatively. The School’s vision encompasses offering undergraduates the opportunity to engage in sustained investigations that combine research, writing, studio practice and production with opportunities for additional coursework. This is a growing trend nationally and, provided a creatively rigorous setting, students will undertake advanced interdisciplinary work and develop undergraduate senior thesis projects that combine written research with film, video, performance, installations, print media, photography and web-based work.

Summary of Goals

Identified by the School of the Arts

• To create a collaborative and inter-disciplinary environment for the arts

• To develop versatile and visible performance and presentation venues

• To address shortfalls in instructional, office, community and rehearsal space

• To plan for modest growth in undergraduate programs with access to better equipped production and post-production facilities

• To provide space for collaboration with other departments and Schools in the University

• To locate expanded and convenient support facilities (workshops, equipment and digital media labs) in close proximity to studios and rehearsal spaces

• To develop a unified presence for the School

• To increase interaction with the surrounding neighborhoods, specifically the Harlem community

Existing Conditions

The School’s current facilities are primarily located in Dodge Hall, Schapiro Hall (rehearsal and offices) and Watson Hall (individual visual art studios) on the Morningside campus. Its undergraduate Writing Program is in Kent Hall. Dodge Hall will remain the focal presence for the School’s graduate programs on the Morningside campus. The School also leases classroom, rehearsal and performance spaces at Riverside Church, 2875 Broadway and Teachers College. In Manhattanville, the School currently occupies approximately one half of Prentis Hall on 125th Street and rehearsal studios in Nash, a Columbia-owned commercial building on Broadway at 132nd Street.

8. Schapiro: Costume Storage

2. Prentis Hall: Painting Storage

6. Dodge Hall: Writing Offices

9. Watson Hall: Color Printer

4. Teachers College: Wood Shop

10. 2875 Broadway: Film Equipment Circulation

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CURRENT FACILITIES — COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Rented Venue

2 Prentis Hall

5 Lewisohn Hall

3 Riverside Church

4 Teacher’s College

8 Schapiro Hall

9 Watson Hall

10 2875 Broadway

6 Dodge Hall

Broadway

116th St. (College Walk)

1 Nash Building

7 Miller Theatre

Morningside Campus — Dodge Hall and Miller Theatre

Constructed in 1924 to accommodate the School of Business, the McMillin Academic Theatre, a banking research room, statistical machine room, and other uses, Dodge Hall has housed the School of the Arts and the Music Department since the 1960s. One of the significant features of Dodge Hall is its location at the Broadway entrance gate of the Columbia Morningside Heights campus, and the opportunity this presents for the School to be more visible.

The architects McKim Mead & White designed Dodge as a general-use academic building, and it offers a range of spaces that are well suited for classrooms, offices and seminars. Dodge is the School of the Art’s largest single facility and its administrative center, and it is the only facility that is interdisciplinary in that it contains space for all four programs, Visual Arts, Theatre, Film and Writing.

Despite these strengths, Dodge is a less than ideal building for many of the specialized needs of the School of the Arts. The building does not lend itself to large scale rehearsal and performance venues, nor can it currently accommodate the infrastructure requirements of workshops and art studios. Most critically, Dodge is heavily utilized, and lacks spaces for student interaction, collaborative work, or shared support facilities.

The overall strategy for the long-term use of Dodge is to work within the building’s typology as a successful general use academic building, and re-locate workshops and large studios to the Manhattanville campus. These relocations would provide expansion space for administrative functions and classroom instruction. Certain facilities, such as the Film Program’s Lifetime Screening Room, would remain to provide instruction and presentation opportunities at Morningside.

The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies and its associated Gallery and Print Shop are currently envisioned to remain at the Morningside Campus, though there may be options to consider an expansion and relocation if appropriate space and benefits to the program can be identified in ManhattanvilleMiller Theatre

Miller Theatre

The street level of Dodge Hall contains the Miller Theatre, a two-story space originally designed as a lecture hall and renovated in 1987 as a performance venue for the University and the School. Miller has operated independently from the School of the Arts in recent years, however, in July 2009 the School

Broadway

Dodge Hall

Dodge Hall (Miller Theatre)

College Walk

Theatre Arts

Film Writing

Visual Arts

Administration

Miller Theatre

Non-SoA

again assumed responsibility for its programs and operation, and thus it provides an important collaborative, interdisciplinary presentation site.

Although Miller has produced innovative programs in dance, music and theatre, the facility has significant deficiencies in its sight lines, mechanical systems, stage configuration and height, wing space, acoustics and back stage support. A renovation of Miller would address these deficiencies and also enable the School to use it for select productions which currently take place in rented space at Riverside Church.

The theatre planning & design consulting firm of Fisher Dachs Associates was asked to examine the theatre and recommend renovation options to address its deficiencies. Because a portion of Miller’s 600 seats have poor sightlines and are often unsold, Fisher Dachs suggested reconfiguring the space as a 400 seat theater with improved lines of sight and better seats. Spaces made available by the re-configuration would be re-purposed as both support spaces (shops, dressing rooms and wing spaces) and public amenities (such as the lobby and ticketing areas). The proposal also recommends excavating down four to five feet below the theatre floor to increase the clear height above the stage for sets, lighting grids and other equipment.

The renovation of Miller could provide additional space if student print and photography shops on the second floor were relocated to Prentis Hall. The feasibility study explored several concepts at a preliminary stage, and exploration of detailed design options would be part of any further development of this option.

A key issue in the renovation of Miller Theatre is developing a cost-effective approach to phasing of the project. Ideally, the second floor of Dodge will need to be vacated to achieve the best configuration of support space. The location of the School’s theatre shop, proposed for the renovation of Prentis Hall, will require some duplication of shop space for the assembly of sets at Miller, however, this is balanced by the benefits of having a performance venue located at the heart of the Morningside campus.

Issues with the existing 600-seat Miller Theatre have included poor acoustics, poor sight lines, low stage height and inadequate wing space, limited and inefficient support space, and inadequate mechanical systems. The New 400-seat Miller Theatre will feature improved acoustics, improved performer-audience relationship, improved stage height and more wing space, additional contiguous support space, mechanical system upgrades, and a larger lobby.

The street level of Dodge Hall contains the Miller Theatre, a two-story space originally designed as a lecture hall, and renovated in 1987 for performances. This space is an exception to the Dodge Hall’s use as a building for offices and classrooms and provides an important opportunity when considering the School of the Arts’ need for performance space. From top: (1) LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies; (2) a performance at Miller Theatre; (3) exterior view of Dodge Hall.

LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies

Dodge Hall Cross-Section

Issues with present Miller Theatre (680-seat configuration)

• Poor acoustics

• Poor sight lines

• Low stage height and inadequate wing space

• Limited / inefficient support space

• Inadequate mechanical systems

Changes with New Miller (400-seat configuration)

• Improved acoustics and performer-audience relationship

• Improved stage height & more wing space

• Additional contiguous support space

• Mechanical system upgrades

• Larger Lobby

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Manhattanville Campus Plan

In response to historic space constraints at its densely developed Morningside Heights campus, Columbia University embarked on the planning of a new campus several blocks to the north in the Manhattanville neighborhood, a less densely developed industrial neighborhood in West Harlem.

The master plan for Manhattanville envisions a new campus located north of 125th Street containing a mix of academic uses; including graduate professional schools, research laboratories, conference facilities and faculty and graduate student housing.

The Master Plan is for a campus that is organized along the existing city street grid and introduces

several publicly accessible green spaces. There is an important emphasis on providing a publicly accessible ground floor to accommodate both rental and university facilities. The design responds to this objective with a highly transparent “urban layer” at the ground floors of all the buildings.

The University has begun design of the first phase of its Manhattanville campus plan which occupies the two blocks south of 130th Street. Among the first buildings will be the Jerome L. Greene Science Center, the “Lantern” Building”, a home for the new School of International and Public Affairs and the Earth Institute, and University-wide conference facilities.

Manhattanville’s Arts Precinct

Available sites

Other Manhattanville sites

In Manhattanville, the arts will play a critical role in promoting a dynamic campus environment, which is also accessible to the public. To that end, the southern portion (Phase 1) of the Manhattanville Plan has incorporated space for the arts in several important new and renovated buildings. The number of students the arts will bring, the public visitors drawn by their presentations and performances, the extended hours of the School and its calendar of events, and even the traffic between multiple buildings will all help promote a vibrant sense of activity and energy.

The Lantern

Prentis Hall

W. 129th Street

Broadway

The Lantern

By virtue of its important site and distinct scale, the Lantern building is a focal point and among the most public of the Manhattanville Phase 1 campus buildings. Approximately 100 feet by 90 feet, it is open to public spaces, and borders an open space called the “Small Square” to the south. In support of the objectives of the master plan, the Lantern building has been conceived as a School of the Arts facility with an emphasis on public programs. The entire building, including the ground floor, its façade and the adjacent outdoor spaces, is a potential opportunity for performance, installation and exhibition activity.

As a building envisioned for public use, and largely without internal structural or dimensional constraints, the Lantern is a logical location for venues, including a 150-seat film theater, a small 74-seat screening room, flexible performance space, multi-use spaces for readings and symposia, and larger rehearsal spaces. This mix of uses also supports the School’s desire to create facilities that serve multiple programs and which encourage collaboration and interaction among students.

As part of the continued development of the Lantern building, the schematic design phase will continue to develop the selection and arrangement of program elements, as well as the vertical organization of spaces relative to acoustics, structure, vertical transportation and other technical constraints. The exact mix of rehearsal, support and presentation spaces will need to reflect the timing and availability of other spaces for the arts.

Section

Small Square

129th Street Stacking

Multi-Purpose Space

Film Theater 150p

Flexible

130th Street

Screening Room 74p

Flexible Performance Space (90p)

Film Theater (150p)

Film Screening Room (74p)

Multi-Purpose / Rehearsal Spaces

Lobby / Flexible Exhibition and Performance Space A2

The site to the west of the Lantern, at the intersection of 125th Street and 12th Avenue (Site 4), is planned to be largely occupied by Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the Earth Institute. With extensive prominent street frontage on 125th Street, there is a significant opportunity to use of a portion of the ground floor and lower levels of Site 4 for a public exhibition gallery.

The current plan envisions approximately 11,000 net square feet of space for an expanded Wallach Gallery. Future schematic design efforts will need to address a number of important technical requirements including lighting control, loading, critical dimensions for art display and environmental systems. 05.

The University proposes to relocate and expand the existing Wallach Gallery (currently in Schermerhorn Hall) to the SIPA building. The new gallery would provide improved space for exhibits, public outreach and gallery support. The School of the Arts would be able to use this expanded gallery to hold its annual thesis exhibition, and the new location would further support joint programs and initiatives between the Department of Art History and Archeology, the School of the Arts and other collaborators.

Conceptual Section

Small Square

Wallach Gallery

Prentis Hall & 560 Riverside Drive

Prentis Hall and 560 Riverside Drive are two Columbia-owned buildings that will play a significant role for the Manhattanville campus plan.

Constructed at the turn of the century as a cutting-edge industrial building, a portion of Prentis Hall is currently occupied by the School of the Arts for studio spaces and other uses. The building’s location on the south side of 125th Street incorporates the street into the Manhattanville campus

fabric. Prentis will also provide a visual terminus to the major north-south open-space circulation spine that links the entire campus.

560 Riverside Drive consists of two large apartment towers on a 4-story podium base that is currently used for Columbia faculty and graduate student residences. The building was constructed during the 1960’s, and the 4-story podium base has entrances on 125th Street.

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Prentis Hall was originally constructed as a milk processing/pasteurization plant in 1909, and was subsequently added to in 1934. Its original function can still be detected today, especially on the ground floor, which incorporates an internal driveway and loading platforms needed for milk distribution on horse-drawn wagons. Its construction employed extensive Gustavino tile vaults and a robust structure of steel framing and concrete slabs.

After acquisition by Columbia in 1949, Prentis was used for research laboratory space, offices, storage, and other uses. The laboratory spaces have

been decommissioned, and the School of the Arts currently occupies spaces on the second and third floors for studios and workshops. The remaining space in the building is used for other University office functions, storage, and support spaces.

An analysis of Prentis reveals that the building is potentially well suited for many of the School of the Arts’ immediate needs. It offers exposures to north light, relatively generous ceiling heights on the second floor, the structural capacity for heavy equipment on the lower levels, and ease of access for receiving and shipping large deliveries.

Prentis Hall completed c. 1909

Prentis Hall has a conventional system of structural bays, with the largest bays providing column-free spaces with proportions that are adequately sized for most SoA program requirements. Film shooting studios or flexible performance spaces can be accommodated in the largest clear span and high-bay spaces with some structural modification and reframing.

The building has additional air rights to allow for vertical expansion, however detailed studies of building conditions, code analysis, and available funding are required to determine the ability to construct additional floor area.

Given the age and previous use of the building, there are several aspects of Prentis that will be addressed as soon as funding is secured. Central among them are replacement of the existing HVAC mechanical system and installation of new ductwork distribution appropriate to the needs of the visual arts studios and workshops. In addition, spaces used for film studios and rehearsals require appropriate acoustical isolation and other modifications. Other potential upgrades include improvements in fire safety, egress, and accessibility. Replacement of windows and a new roof are also potential elements in the adaptive re-use of this building.

Individual

Teaching

Resource

Prentis Hall

560 Riverside Drive

Space Workbook Needs

Space requirements for the School of the Arts were defined as part of a comprehensive strategy that addressed all of the School’s programs and opportunities offered by its existing facilities. Careful analysis of available space at the Morningside Campus reinforced a planning direction that concentrated instruction and administrative uses there, including space for the Writing Program, general use classrooms, the existing Lifetime Screening Room, and an improved Miller Theatre.

The remaining space needs of the School of the Arts are concentrated in two broad categories of presentation and production spaces. Presentation

spaces include performance venues, large screening rooms, exhibit galleries and associated support, and provide settings to showcase the work of the School to a broader public and the University community.

PRESENTATION

PRODUCTION INSTRUCTION

Prentis Hall & 560 Riverside Drive

Space Use Diagram

Prentis / 560 Riverside

Second Floor Shell Plan

Typically the dimensional requirements of these spaces (large, high volume, column free areas) make them best suited to new construction. Production spaces (studios, workshops and labs) can be seen as a “factory” for artistic exploration, supporting collaborative encounters and the execution of the work. These require special technical requirements for structural loading, ventilation systems, power, lighting and vertical circulation. The dimensional requirements are somewhat less restrictive than those of performance spaces. Prentis Hall, at the Manhattanville Campus, possesses the robustness of structure that can lend itself to the needs of artistic production.

The space program for the School of the Arts was consciously organized to identify and

Prentis Hall

Individual/SharedStudios

Individual/SharedStudios

The Future SoA

Nash Building

The Lantern

Wallach Gallery

560 Riverside

Prentis Hall

MANHATTANVILLE CAMPUS

Presentation

The Lantern and Wallach Gallery

Performances

Exhibitions

Film Screenings

Readings and Symposia

Production

Prentis Hall & 560 Riverside

Studios

Shops and Laboratories

Film Production Rehearsal

MANHATTANVILLE CAMPUS

Dodge Hall

Miller Theatre

MORNINGSIDE CAMPUS

Presentation

Miller Theatre Performances

Readings / Symposia

Instruction and Administration

Dodge Hall

Seminars

Lecture Classrooms

Faculty and Administrative Offices Offices

MORNINGSIDE CAMPUS

Key Accomplishments of the Future School of the Arts.

1 Provides required additional space and major public venues.

2 Reduces reliance on rental spaces.

3 Creates interdisciplinary facilities for presentation and production.

4 Consolidates the School of the Arts into two major nodes of activity.

5 Increases operational efficiencies and achieves functional adjacencies.

6 Allows for phased development of inter-related projects.

7 Allows for staged implementation as funding is secured.

8 Identifies opportunities for immediate upgrades.

Client School of the Arts

Project Planning

Columbia University Facilities & Management

Manhattanville Development Group

Planning & Space Management

Facilities Operations

Columbia University

Office of Alumni and Development

Space Programming & Davis Brody Bond Aedas

Feasibility Study

Architects & Planners

Will Paxson, Partner in Charge

Carl Krebs, Partner in Charge

Nat Hoyt • Newt Kershner

Khania Curtis • Dylan Jhirad

Lantern Test Fits Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Theater Planning Fisher Dachs Associates

Cost Estimating Bovis Lend Lease LMB, Inc.

Study Funded by The Gatsby Charitable Foundation October 2009