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University of Oregon School of Music and Dance

Eugene, OR

University of Oregon School of Music and Dance

Eugene, OR

This expansion to the University’s School of Music and Dance provides state-of-the-art performance, practice, classroom and student gathering spaces organized around a new outdoor courtyard. The new spaces mitigate the varying architectural expressions of the existing facility and bring a sense of order to the complex. Through an abundance of windows and clerestory glazing, students and faculty are visually connected to the greater campus community.

A new addition to the north of the existing facility houses the instrument rehearsal room, which features continuous clerestory glazing and a large window offering views of the southwest campus green, serves as a dynamic beacon for the school . This large ensemble rehearsal space, capable of seating an orchestra of 85 musicians, can easily be transformed via variable acoustic treatments into a jazz cabaret, banquet venue or 250-seat recital hall. The addition also accommodates percussion and jazz rehearsal rooms, faculty studios, practice rooms, and a master recording studio.

To the southeast of the existing facility, a new three-story addition contains classrooms, practice rooms and faculty studios. Forming the edge of a new courtyard, the first floor of the structure is built into the existing hillside and covered by a green roof. The second and third floors, rotated 90 degrees from the lower floor in order to minimize western exposure, house faculty studios and a lounge space.

Size

29,000sf addition; 16,000sf renovation

Collaborators

Kramer Gehlen & Associates
Lango Hansen
PAE Consulting Engineers
Kirkegaard Associates
John Hyland Construction