The REACH at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Now Open To Public
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Arup and Steven Holl Architects are celebrating the opening of the REACH at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It opened to the public on Saturday, September 7, 2019.Arup, founded in 1946, provides consulting, planning, engineering, and designThe REACH at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Now Open To Public
Arup and Steven Holl Architects are celebrating the opening of the REACH at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It opened to the public on Saturday, September 7, 2019.Arup, founded in 1946, provides consulting, planning, engineering, and design services for projects and sites in the built environment. It has played a key role in delivering the first-ever expansion of Washington, D.C.’s premier performing arts venue.REACH is a highly sustainable addition and on track to earn LEED Gold. It will serve as a living theater, an immersive learning center, and public arts incubator. The building is anchored by three signature pavilions. These stretch across a sweeping, green lawn overlooking the Potomac River, and forge a direct connection between the landscape and the river. “The Welcome Pavilion, Skylight Pavilion, and River Pavilion echo and extend the adjacent main building and link together below-ground to create an expansive facility providing classrooms, studios and a variety of multi-use public spaces,” Arup informs.The firm's integrated team of engineers and consultants collaborated closely to develop a holistic building systems strategy to support the architectural vision while also meeting ambitious sustainability standards. These optimize energy performance while remaining largely unseen. The strategy was to incorporate a range of performance-enhancing technologies, starting from a closed-loop, ground-source heat rejection system, to advanced temperature controls and radiant floor heating. This system provides simultaneous hot and chilled water and enables different areas of the interior to be heated and cooled simultaneously without significantly increasing energy requirements. “Using Arup's robust in-house software suite, Oasys Building Environmental Analysis (BEANS), the team demonstrated that the addition of radiant floors would counteract the thermal effects of the Skylight Pavilion’s massive curved wall, providing both heating and cooling and significantly boosting comfort throughout the year while keeping energy demands within acceptable levels,” the engineering and design company adds.“Our team brought the depth of experience and knowledge needed to incorporate building systems in very non-traditional ways to support Steven Holl’s clear vision for the REACH’s interior spaces,” said Geoffrey Eddy, the REACH project manager and associate at Arup. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more