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Northern Virginia Community College – Alexandria Campus, Center for Design, Media and the Arts

Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Steve Maylone

The Center for Design, Media and the Arts offers a collection of welcoming and open multidisciplinary spaces. A 150-seat black box theatre features adjustable seating and can be arranged in thrust arena, traverse, or endstage configurations. Through glass windows above the room, a hallway offers passersby a unique angle to watch the action on stage—both features were designed to invite cross-disciplinary collaboration and contribute to the building’s “open” aesthetic.

80,000
square-foot facility

A second-floor choral rehearsal room features a floor-to-ceiling glass walls, illuminating the two-story space with natural light. With retractable seating and variable acoustic draperies, the rehearsal room can be “tuned” to suit the acoustic needs of each user. With multiple users in mind, we designed the facility’s dance studio with a sprung floor, dedicated dressing room, pipe grid, performance lighting, and retractable seating. The black box theatre, choral rehearsal room, and many of the classrooms were designed as “smart classrooms,” and equipped with recording capability and extensive technical infrastructure.

Steve Maylone
owner:
Northern Virginia Community College
architect:
Moseley Architects
acoustician:
Jaffe Holden
users:
Department of Arts & Theatre, Music, and Dance, touring groups, college events
spaces:
  • 150-seat flexible theatre
construction type:
New construction
theatre type:
School & academy spaces
services:
Programming, concept design, theatre planning, theatre equipment design and specification
completion:
2017
Steve Maylone

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