The center is primarily dedicated to the cooperation of students and professionals of various specialties, to a large extent - in the field of technologically loaded forms of contemporary art. Therefore, the design of his building primarily solves the problem of interaction between students and people teaching there.
The four floors of the building were turned into eight by the efforts of the architects: the height of the building remained practically the same, but vertically it was divided in half by an acoustically impenetrable glass wall. On its axis, both parts of the building were displaced by half a floor relative to each other; as a result, through this wall, two others are visible from each of the auditoriums: the one slightly higher and the one slightly lower. Externally, all classrooms are designed as independent blocks - eight in total - with glass facades open into the campus space (another direction of interaction) and side surfaces sheathed with zinc panels.
All rooms are spacious and, if possible, have no supports, high ceilings are everywhere. The eight main spaces include a 218-seat rehearsal / auditorium, four studios for performance, video art, music, film, etc., a recording studio, a media lab for computer-assisted creativity, and a media and physics lab for creativity and research in the field of robotics and other projects on the border of art and science. In addition, there are five small individual study studios, a showroom and a smart classroom; common areas include "living rooms" for discussion and presentation of projects, the volumes of which are connected to the main staircase and protrude into the atrium space, and an extensive lobby.
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