Tag: Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion

Award-winning Education Buildings:Pratt Pavilion; WaveLine; Buddhists Educational Retreat

March 2nd, 2010

Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion: View of Pavilion floating above entry court: hanrahan Meyers architects: 2007 NY Designs Award, Architectural League

New York architects hanrahan Meyers (hMa) have a track record for designing award winning educational buildings. hMa's Pratt Pavilion, completed in 2007, was recognized for its cutting edge design with a 'New York Designs' award from the Architectural League of New York. The building is featured in the 2009 Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture. The Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion is a new 10,000 square foot building on the Pratt Institute Campus in Brooklyn. The Pavilion ties two previously separate buildings into one entity: the Pratt Design Center, creating the first Design Center in the United States uniting all Design disciplines (fashion, interior design, graphic design and industrial design) under one roof.

WaveLine Pavilion: Rear elevation view: roof becomes the wall; hanrahan Meyers architects: 2007 AIA NYChapter Design Award

WaveLine, completed in 2007, was recognized with an AIA NYChapter Design Award for its excellence in design. WaveLine was built within an existing NYCHA (New York City Housing Authority) compound in Queens, New York, as a multi-use building. Like Pratt Pavilion, WaveLine is connected to a larger Community Center, and was designed to function part-time as a classroom.

Won Buddhist Training Center, Claverack, NY: hanrahan Meyers architects

The Won Buddhist Retreat, currently in construction in Claverack, New York, is designed as a campus for Buddhist education. The Retreat consists of five buildings; three residential halls (each with one room dedicated as a classroom); an Administrative building (with classrooms and a library); and a main Buddhist Meditation Hall.

All three projects have been recognized through publications and awards programs for their foresight in design.

To read more about hanrahan Meyers architects visit our website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com.

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July 23rd, 2009

Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion

Phase 5 : Finished Building – Timeline 2007

We are showing the finished Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion. The project is depicted in various states of finish on this blog, where we posted a chronical of the construction process for the building. To see the building in progress, go to posts dated: July 20, 2009; July 10, 2009, and July 6, 2009. Pratt Pavilion opened to international acclaim and attention in the fall of 2007. Pratt Pavilion is a key part of an overall campus planning strategy for the Pratt Institute campus.

Prior to Pratt Pavilion opening, the 'front doors' of the two adjacent industrial loft buildings opened onto DeKalb Avenue, an adjacent street, instead of opening toward the Pratt Campus. hanrahan Meyers architects were part of a larger effort by Pratt Institute to reorient the Institute's buildings toward the Institute's central campus space. In addition to contributing to master plan efforts at Pratt Institute, hanrahan Meyers architects are just finishing their work on Battery Park City's North Neighborhood Master Plan, where hMa have been master plan architects since 1997. At Battery Park City's North Neighborhood, hanrahan Meyers architects wrote all of the design guidelines for several million square feet of sustainable construction, including the design guidelines for the world's first built LEED certified residential tower, the Solaire. To see more about hMa's efforts at Pratt Institute, as well as for Battery Park City, visit hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com. To see more about Pratt Institute as well as hMa's experience designing green masterplans, go to 'projects'; educational spaces / masterplans and landscapes.

Pratt Pavilion acts as a new 'front door' to two larger loft buildings that house several of the Institute programs, including Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design and Interior Design. At the rear of the Pavilion is a new 'bridge' of sloping corridors that connect the formerly disconnected loft buildings together, so that all of the programs are now housed within a single, connected building. The second floor of the Pavilion, above the clear glass entry, houses a gallery to showcase work by Pratt students, faculty and alumni.
Urban Design: American Campus DesignJuliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion; Phase Four : Pavilion Construction – Timeline 2006

July 20th, 2009

hanrahan Meyers architects are showing their Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion in construction. To see the finished building, go to hMa's post of the same project, posted on this blog on July 23, 2009. The Pavilion is designed as a new 'front door' to two existing loft buildings on the Pratt campus. Prior to constructing the Pratt Pavilion, the front doors to the two loft buildings faced out toward the adjacent street. The Pavilion reoriented the entry toward the Pratt Campus.

Pratt Pavilion is phase one of a larger master plan for the Pratt Campus to reorient all buildings from having entry doors that open to the adjacent streets, to having entry doors that open to the Pratt Campus.

To see more about Pratt Pavilion, visit hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com. hanrahan Meyers architects specialize in producing green buildings and green master plans. At this time, the firm is also finishing their work on the sustainable and green master plan for Battery Park City's North Neighborhood. To see more about hMa's Master Plan for Battery Park City, visit hMa's website, or go to their blog posting dated January 9, 2009, or go to the hMa website, and click on 'Master Plans and Landscapes'.
Urban Design: American Campus DesignPhase Three: Experience – Timeline 2005 – 2006

July 20th, 2009

Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion

Phase Three: Experience – Timeline: 2005–2006

Final physical model. – Choosing Materials

Refining the use of natural light, adapting the gallery to art. – Framing Nature, toward the campus

Victoria Meyers architect for hanrahan Meyers architects. Green campus Design

In 2003 hanrahan Meyers architects were hired by Pratt Institute to design the Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion. Pratt Pavilion was commisioned to create a new 'front door' for two existing Institute buildings where Pratt Institute Pratt design programs are housed: Industrial Design, Fashion Design, Graphic Design and Interior Design.

To see more about Pratt Pavilion, go to hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com.

The images above present hMa's working process for designing the building. Images 1 and 2 (starting from the top) show hMa's earlier version of the building massing model. Images 3 and 4 show the final model, where hMa chose the final materials. Images 5 and 6 show hMa's computer model of the final building massing; Images 7, 8 and 9 show hMa's perspectives of the building interiors. Images 10 and 11 show computer images of hMa's final building massing and gallery interior.
Urban Design: American Campus Design Phase Two: Form – Timeline 2005

July 10th, 2009

Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion: Phase Two: Form – Timeline : 2005

hanrahan Meyers architects present their design studies for the Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion. The project opened to international acclaim in 2007. To see the finished building, visit hMa's post on the hMa blog dated: July 23, 2009. To read more about the Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion, visit hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com, click on 'projects' and go to 'educational spaces'.

The studies show the following, starting from the top of the post: hMa's initial water-color / massing study for the building design. This is the building's earliest study presented to the Pratt Institute Board. Next to that are two physical model studies, showing the massing for the building from the front and from above.

Below, hMa's massing study / isometric showing: the entry ramp / building ground plane; adding the stair and infrastructure; and adding the shapes of the two adjacent loft buildings. Pratt Pavilion was designed as a new 'front door' to a larger complex, the new Pratt Design Center. The Design Center connects together the floorplates of two large loft buildings, totalling 200,000 square feet. These buildings house all of Pratt's Design programs including industrial design, graphic design, interior design and fashion design.

Below the isometric are two of hanrahan Meyers' early perspective studies for the Pavilion's exterior and interior finishes. This collection of images were originally catalogued for hMa's winning entry in the Architectural League of New York's competition: Starts and Finishes.

Pratt Pavilion is the first building built on the main Pratt Campus as part of a larger master plan strategy to reorient the front facades and front doors of the campus buildings from neighboring streets, toward the main campus. When Pratt Institute was originally founded by the Pratt family, the central campus did not exist and was bisected by a street with a trolley. In the one hundred years since the Institute's original founding, the original street was de-mapped and removed, and Pratt formed an internal green campus to replace the street, around fifty years ago. Recently, the Institute has embarked on a cohesive master plan strategy to complete the School's orientation toward its central campus by turning the facades of the Insitute's buildings away from the surrounding streets, and toward the campus. hMa played a key role in this planning process, developing the first building to implement the new Master Plan.

To see more about hanrahan Meyers' master planning projects, visit hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com, and go to: Projects: masterplans and landscapes.
Pratt Pavilion in Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture

February 9th, 2009

hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) are honored to have the Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion featured in the recently published Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture.

The following is an excerpt from the book:

"This pavilion, a new focal point for the Pratt Institute campus in Brooklyn, NY, is used by the students and faculty to exhibit the work of (the) institute’s students. Clad with stainless steel and suspended between two existing industrial loft buildings on the main Pratt Institute campus, the project includes a glazed entrance lobby for the pavilion and the adjacent Steuben Hall and Pratt Studios. Behind the Juliana Curran Terian Design Center Pratt Pavilion, which includes the glass entrance and a new circulation bridge to the south, a new courtyard makes an outdoor room for informal meetings and classes in warm weather. The building is clad with hand-finished stainless steel panels, and the glazed north-facing facade looks towards the institute’s main quadrangle, with screens that pull down to darken the space for slides or videos. To the south, the pavilion bridge ramps east and west, creating a circulation zone which connects the Pratt Pavilion, Steuben and Pratt Studios. The courtyard and pavilion are designed to work together as a ventilation system. Windows on the south facade open to bring air from the courtyard through the pavilion, and out through windows on the north facade."

Second-floor gallery in the Pratt Pavilion; Pratt Institute main campus; Brooklyn, NY

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Pratt Institute: Juliana Curran Terian Design Center Dedication Ceremonyminimalist public building design; pratt institute; educational architecture

April 10th, 2007

Pratt Institute: Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion by hanrahan Meyers architects

Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion: Gallery Interior: hanrahan Meyers architects

Pratt Institute will hold a public dedication ceremony at its new Juliana Curran Terian Design Center on the Brooklyn Campus at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17, 2007. The event will celebrate the completion of the center's new pavilion and honor Juliana Curran Terian, a Pratt alumna and trustee, for her generous $5 million gift – the second largest gift from a living individual in Pratt's 120-year history-which made the construction of the building possible.

The completion of the new building, designed by hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa), marks the first step in bringing together under one roof all of Pratt's design disciplines- interior design, fashion design, industrial (product) design, and communications design- to offer graduate and undergraduate creative minds a modern center where they can cultivate new ideas in a collaborative setting that fosters interdisciplinary research and learning initiatives among the different design programs. To read more about hanrahan Meyers architects and their design for the Pavilion, visit hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com.

Link to full text article in Gateway, the Pratt Institute Newsletter.