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A former industrial shed is converted into a facility for the arts.
The new NSCAD Port Campus now occupies a 300-foot-long section of a half-mile long, 100-year-old industrial shed directly on Halifax Harbour, adjacent to the historic Pier 21, Canada’s Ellis Island. The new facility accommodates the “dirty arts”—metalwork, foundry, plastics, woodworking, sculpture, stone carving, and ceramics, along with Foundation Year, Continuing Education, and an art gallery—and is intended to act as a catalyst for the development of a new arts and cultural district.
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The design strategy emphasized the character and flexibility of the original industrial space despite the dense space program, the tight construction budget, and the aggressive schedule of 18 months from design to construction.
The parti begins with the strategic placement of two mechanical service cores at the north and south ends of the plan and consists of a series of parallel layers which mediate between the public and private realms and respond to the program requirements. Upon entry, one passes through the black zinc skin of the loggia volume, through the delaminated Galvalume envelope of the existing shed, which retains the original loading bay doors, to a galvanized steel panel-clad box containing offices and specialized workshop spaces. A waterfront Studio curtainwall offers views of Halifax Harbour and historic Georges Island.
MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects worked closely with their envelope consultant, Halsall Associates Limited, to execute the harbor front and landside facades, comprised of tinted low-e glazing. The loggia facade is composed of an insulated steel liner panel system clad in corrugated black zinc, with huge custom-designed operable shutters, which are clad in perforated, corrugated black zinc with an open area of about 50 percent. These shutters cover the majority of the full-height glazing in the first floor loggia gallery, the second floor student lounges, and open air porches, dramatically reducing heat gain and glare on the west-facing facade.
Formal name of project: NSCAD University Port Campus
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Gross square footage: 72,000 sq.ft.
Total construction cost: $10 million (CDN)
Completion Date: July 2007
Owner:
NSCAD University
Architect:
MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
2188 Gottingen Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Tel : 902 429 1867
Fax : 902 429 6276
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