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The Laboratory for the Performing Arts brings together the teaching and rehearsal spaces of the Music and Theater Arts sections.
Rehearsal studios and performance spaces are the equivalent in the Arts to the role of the laboratory in science and engineering. This will be a place of testing, innovation, entrepreneurship.
Our design for the MIT Laboratory for the Performing Arts celebrates the variety of activities in the three primary teaching spaces by featuring them as discrete urban scaled objects.
The Choral Rehearsal Room is a projecting glass cube reaching out to Massachusetts Avenue and serving as a symbol of the creative energy which occurs thoughout the building.
The Black Box Theater, also visible from Mass Ave, is a bright metal object set back from the face of the building. The art of stagecraft is celebrated by providing views into the crossover space.
The Instrumental Rehearsal Room is a metal volume on Albany Street, flush with the surface of the wall and animated by a large ground floor window.
This Laboratory for the Performing Arts contains the “academic heart” of the Music & Theater Arts section.
The building is comprised of three main teaching spaces (each 30 feet tall or higher):
Additionally the building includes a Dance Studio Classroom, Theater Studio Classroom, 2 Chamber Rehearsal Rooms, a Percussion Rehearsal Room and ancillary “back of house” spaces.
