Project Details
- Project Name
- PARSONS MAKING CENTER
- Architect
- RICE+LIPKA ARCHITECTS
- Client/Owner
- Parsons School of Design/The New School
- Project Types
- Education
- Project Scope
- Renovation/Remodel
- Size
- 26,000 sq. feet
- Awards
- 2018 AIA - State/Regional Awards
- Shared by
- Hayley Harrington
- Team
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Taylor McNally-Anderson, Senior Designer
Alexander Crean, Designer
Lindsay Harkema, Designer
Ahmad Khan, Designer
Rachel Kim, Designer
Marisa Musing, Designer
Igsung So, Designer
Wayne Yan, Designer
Guanyi Zhang, Designer
- Project Status
- Built
Project Description
The new 26,000sf multi-disciplinary Making Center at Parsons supports the most advanced practices in digital technology and physical craft in a raw, unprecious working environment. Stitching together spaces in two buildings, the Center was conceived as a de-siloed making place where design students from a diverse range of creative disciplines can work side-by-side. At a time when universities increasingly focus on maximizing assigned pedagogical space, the Making Center subverts the norm with a physical and programmatic openness that informally brings thinker-creators together from the entire New School community. More than half of its 14,000sf main level is dedicated to not being dedicated.
