Project Details
- Project Name
- M.I.T. Experimental Theater
- Location
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345 Vassar St
MA
- Architect
- designLAB architects
- Client/Owner
- M.I.T
- Project Scope
- Preservation/Restoration
- Size
- 25,000 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 2017
- Awards
- 2018 AIA - Local Awards
- Shared by
- John Branagan
- Team
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Principal-in-Charge, Robert Miklos, FAIA
Project Manager, Sam Batchelor
- Consultants
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Geotechnical Engineer: McPhail Associates, Inc,Structural Engineer: Structures Workshop,Other: Integrated Eco Strategy LLC,Lighting Designer: Vanderweil Engineers, LLP,Audio-visual and Information Technology: JaffeHolden,Civil Engineer: Nitsch Engineering,Other: Kalin Assosiates,Other: Syska Elevator
- Project Status
- Built
Project Description
MIT's experimental theater program provides theater students with an in-depth experience in the performing arts through coursework in acting, set and costume design, lighting, production, film and video. To make way for a large research development project in Kendall Square, Theater Arts was relocated from its original home in the Rinaldi Tile Building to a pair anonymous warehouse buildings on Vassar St. in Cambridgeport. Working together with the theater director and faculty, designLAB created a state-of the art production and performance facility that retains the ‘raw creative’ environment of their previous industrial space. While transforming the anonymous buildings into an icon for department.
