PROSCENIUM LOST

New York City is recognized as the epicenter of culture. From cuisine to music to theater, the city characterizes itself by its ability to gather a conglomerate of cultural assets and diffuse them to people at the city scale. From a sociological perspective, this process is about reorientation, but what if there was space that thought to turn this model on its head?

Proscenium Lost is a medium sized theater which seeks to use disorientation as the principal driver for attracting patrons to its doors. Located in the heart of Midtown, the theater sits just two blocks from times square. It boasts a triple skin facade which invites those who pass by it to enter. The outer most layer is a curtain wall composed of slumped glass IGUs which have varying directionality in their cast. Further in, a non-structural glulam screen creates new forms in elevation and serves as a buffer to help transition theater goers from public to private space. Lastly, the inner most skin is composed of triangulated wood framed volumes which serve both to create enclosure and structural stability. Diagonal members create trusses which provide structural stability and an aesthetic rhythm throughout the building.