Dwight Arts Studio with Brian Healy

1. DWIGHT ARTS CENTER
4 New Haven, Connecticut
Critic: Brian Healy
Program occupy the second floor, and activity of the school as they
painting studios span the top walk through while affording
The proposed Dwight Arts floor. the classroom users varying
Center is located on the corner amounts of privacy. The goal
of Orchard Avenue and Chapel Inside, the prefabricated of these 'porous' screens is to
Street in a residential screens (photos right) have create a sense of community
neighborhood of New Haven. many functions within the by tying in the actiivities of the
The Dwight Arts Center was school. Made out of wood and classrooms to the circulation
designed to function both as a glass, these screens allow of the building.
Arts center and a community people to see into the
facility for the Dwight classrooms as they walk to In putting the activities and
neighborhood. their destination, afford the products of the art school in
working artists/students various modes of display,
The building is organized privacy, and allow light to filter cross pollination between
around a central exhibition into the communal central departments is fostered; the
space. From this space, one display space. production and presentation
can view the artistic efforts of of art are fused to generate
the Arts Center students. The On the first floor, which an active dynamic space.
program is distributed receives the most traffic, and
according to the light thus demands privacy, the
requirements of each artistic screens are tightly spaced.
endeavor: photograhy studios On the upper floors, the
are located in the basement, panels gradually become more
ceramics is situated on the loosely spaced. This
ground floor, sculpture studios allows the users to feel the

2. DWIGHT ARTS
PLANS + SECTIONS + PERSPECTIVES

3. DWIGHT ARTS
SECTIONS + MODEL
Sections show how the affording the studio users
spacing between the wall privacy. The circulation and the
panels facing the exhibit activity of the building are
space open up as the visitor interlocked. The top section
moves up in the building. The shows how people getting out at
panels were designed to allow the elevator stops have a
light from the perimeter to primary view into the activity of
stream into the exhibit space, the studio. The bottom section is
and to allow the public cut through the exhibition space.
glimpses of the ongoing
activity in the studios while
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