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Charcoal drapes create multiple shoot studios for Parsons' photography program.
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Each arched bay has a dual drape track enabling each building bay to become an individual shoot studio. © Michael Moran
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Each arched bay has a dual drape track enabling each building bay to become an individual shoot studio. © Michael Moran
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AMT has four large design studios with meeting rooms situated around the existing light court and open collaborative work spaces between. © Michael Moran
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Design studio along existing Fifth Avenue arched window wall and adjacent to shoot studios. © Michael Moran
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A shingled photography equipment storage wall defines the shoot studios & are accessible from adjacent circulation.
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A shingled photography equipment storage wall defines the shoot studios & are accessible from adjacent circulation.
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A range of study options are distrubuted across the AMT facility including communal bar & individual study carrels.
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A range of study options are distrubuted across the AMT facility including communal bar & individual study carrels. © Michael Moran
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Charcoal drapes create multiple shoot studios for Parsons' photography program.

PARSONS SCHOOL OF ART, MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY

The New School/Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Proposal 2015
Project 2015-17
Completion 2017

Parsons School of Art, Media & Technology is a new 15,400sf studio facilities and administrative hub at Fifth Avenue & 13th Street. R+L stripped away decades of wall-building to open-up the floor and reveal substantial masonry perimeter walls and arched ceilings. Communications Design, Data Visualization, Design & Technology, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration and Photography share the space that includes design studios, digital studios, open collaborative workspaces and a large multi-function shoot studio/event space with flexible draped bays for Parsons' photography program. R+L wrapped the school's group meeting spaces around the existing U-shaped lightcourt, consolidating private programs to maximize the flexibility & openness of the academic spaces.

Rice+Lipka Architects
Principals: Lyn Rice & Astrid Lipka
Associate: Taylor McNally-Anderson
Sr Designers: Lindsay Harkema, Ahmad Khan, Yiyao Liu, Guanyi Zhang
Project Team: Marisa Musing, Yiyao Tang, Camille Vantalon

Structural: Silman
Environmental: ME Engineers
Lighting: Richard Shaver Architectural Lighting
Security, Technology: Preda
Audiovisual: InToTo