תכנון בית ספר קולבורן בלוס אנג'לס על ידי פרנק גרי || פרויקטים

Project name: The colburn center at the colburn school
Architecture: Gehry Partners LLP | @frankgehry_official
Location: Downtown Los Angeles, California,USA
Status: Expected to break ground 2023
Images: @Gehry Partners

בית הספר קולבורן בלוס אנג'לס, אחד מבתי הספר המובילים בעולם למוזיקה וריקוד, ייצא לפרויקט הרחבה שאפתני עם האדריכל פרנק ג'רי. צוות משרד האדריכלות סיים את העיצוב של מרכז קולבורן, הרחבה של 100,000 רגל מרובע בקמפוס במרכז העיר לוס אנג'לס. הקהילה האמנותית של לוס אנג'לס תביא לחיים את אולם הקונצרטים החדש עם 1,000 מושבים ותיאטרון עם 100 מושבים.

the new colburn center will inspire and serve the young performing artists across LA. with a prominent position across the street from the school’s existing campus, the new project will stand as an important addition to the cultural corridor which includes gehry partners’ walt disney concert hall, the music center, the museum of contemporary art, and the diller scofidio + renfro-designed broad. after raising an astounding $270 million out of a $350 million goal, work on the project is expected to break ground in 2023.


Inside the 1,000-seat terri and jerry kohl hall , image © gehry partners


New urban plaza to be created at the entrance to the concert hall | image © gehry partners

Conceived as a major contribution to the cultural and civic life of Downtown LA, the Colburn Center will make the Colburn campus an even livelier hub of artistic activity and enable the School to expand its mission of presenting programs for the public, which include performance and educational collaborations with acclaimed local and touring artists and ensembles. It will also provide muchneeded performance space in a mid-sized hall for the region’s established and emerging performing arts organizations.
Gehry’s design will welcome students and audiences alike, with a dynamic composition of transparent and opaque interlocking blocks that step down into the natural contour of the site. A 1,000-seat concert hall uses an in-the-round design to create intimacy between the performers and the audience and removes the stage lip, putting front-row seats at eye-level with the performers. Orchestra, opera, dance, and musical theater will all be at home in the hall, which is equipped with an orchestra pit and a stage large enough to accommodate the grandest works and the largest orchestrations.
Four professional-sized dance studios and a 100-seat flexible studio theater are enveloped in glass and provide a literal window into the beauty and rigor of dance training and performance. With a separate entrance and distinct architectural character, the light-filled dance facilities will have their own identity while harmonizing with the larger project.  


View from hill street and 2nd street intersection, image © gehry partners


view from hill street west towards dance school entrance, image © gehry partners

The Colburn Center stands directly across the intersection of Olive and Second Streets from the Colburn School’s existing campus, complementing and completing both its facilities and its architecture, which already support over 500 performances a year. The new complex, which is expected to break ground in 2023 and to host its first performances in the fall of 2025, will add to the already dynamic activity at Colburn. The Colburn Center will complete the largest concentration of Gehry-designed buildings anywhere in the world, joining the soon-to-open mixed-use project, The Grand, and the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall.
The Colburn Center will be equipped to take a modern approach to multi-media technology and production. The facilities include commercial-quality recording and streaming capabilities, and performance spaces will be outfitted with state-of-the-art lighting. Public spaces include an outdoor plaza, giving visitors a front-row seat to the performing arts, and gardens which provide much-needed green space and pedestrian access to nearby public transit hubs.

The expansion project reunites Gehry, one of the world’s most distinguished architects, with his collaborator Yasuhisa Toyota of Nagata Acoustics, chief acoustician for illustrious concert halls including Walt Disney Concert Hall, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. The all-star project team also includes Michael Ferguson, principal of TheatreDNA, who formerly consulted on Gehry’s New World Center in Miami Beach and Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College.

The Design of the Colburn Center
Conceived as an ensemble of interlocking volumes, each of which houses a distinct program while interacting dynamically with the whole, the center will be built into a terrain that slopes down from Olive Street to Hill Street. On the Olive Street side, a transparent, three-story-high main entrance and lobby will lead to the building’s 1,000-seat concert hall: the Colburn School’s first venue for a full-scale orchestra and home to the Conservatory’s flagship ensemble, the Colburn Orchestra. 
Terri and Jerry Kohl Hall will feature floating balconies and tiers of seats embracing a circular stage area, as well as an orchestra pit to accommodate up to 70 musicians. The panels of an acoustical ceiling suspended above will resemble clouds floating over the hall. In keeping with this airy atmosphere, two skylights will bring daylight into the space.


The physical model, image © gehry partners


The physical model, image © gehry partners

The dance spaces housing the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute will create the most comprehensive dance education complex in Downtown Los Angeles. Glass-enclosed studios and a studio theater with 100-seats will face Hill Street. The transparent spaces will create opportunities for the public to witness the beauty and hard work of dance training. The studio theater will sit atop a two-story stack of four dance studios—three measuring 2,600 square feet and another for tap dance measuring 1,400 square feet. Due to the slope of the terrain, the studio theater will be at the same level as the entrance to the concert hall. 
Two gardens will weave these elements together and add to the green space of Downtown LA. A roof garden on top of the studio theater offers views over 2nd Street and space for pre-performance receptions, intermission gatherings, or a place for small-scale outdoor performances. A second garden at ground level includes an area for the public as well as a gated entrance at Hill Street and 2nd Street, where students, faculty, parents, and visitors may gather, study, converse, and relax, as well as enjoy small concerts.