Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
A new design center connects a creative campus.
Photo © Michael Moran
Photo © Michael Moran
Photo © Michael Moran
Image courtesy Lyn Rice Architects
Image courtesy Lyn Rice Architects
Image courtesy Lyn Rice Architects
Image courtesy Lyn Rice Architects
Architects & Firms
New York, New York
The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center establishes a new 32,800-square-foot campus nexus for Parsons The New School for Design by uniting and radically reorganizing the street-level spaces of the school’s four buildings around a new urban quad. The center draws together the school’s creative programs in their active Greenwich Village context. New Fifth Avenue and West 13th Street entries connect internally for the first time under a glazed-roof, providing access to new galleries, archives, auditorium, orientation center, student critique zone, and seminar spaces.
The new 1,600-square-foot glazed-roof campus quad unifies circulation and brings together students and faculty from the school’s different design disciplines. Yellow poplar bark panels refer to traditionally planned campus environs, but the new addition is urban and improvised 90 years after the buildings were completed, a tactical appropriation of the liminal space between existing buildings. Stripped to expose their substantial concrete and steel structures, the existing building shells provide a raw and varied industrial context for the new, discretely articulated programmatic insertions.
Lyn Rice Architects worked as designers and planners to set up opportunities for the students to create an identity for the center through their work. Windowsills that previously formed a barrier between inside and out were removed. New frames were lowered and thickened to form a window lounge with interior and exterior seating. The window lounge also doubles as an exhibition zone for the display of student work, and encourages students and faculty to occupy the complex’s perimeter.
PeopleOwner Architect Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Associate: Astrid Lipka AIA Project manager: Kimberlae Saul AIA Team leaders: Karl-Erik Larson & Anne-Rachel Schiffmann Design team: Leif Halverson (SD project architect), Kai Hotson, Julie Torres Moscovitz, Pamela Torres, Erik Carver, Jonathan Garnett, Joanna Gulik Engineer(s) Associate principal: Denzil Gallagher Project manager/electrical: Dennis Burton Mechanical: Alan Jackson, Jing Song, Rebecca Welch Structural: Stanley Wojnowski, Adrian Biltoft, J Cohen Fire protection & plumbing: Valentin Antohi Consultant(s) Lighting: AV+Acoustical: Specifications: Elevator Consultants: General contractor Mark Heiman, COO Photographer: Noah Sheldon, LYN RICE ARCHITECTS, Renderer(s): CAD system, project management, or other software used: Modeling: Rhino Rendering: Rhino, Adobe CS2 |
ProductsExterior cladding: Roofing: Windows: Glazing: Installation by Empire Architectural Metal Corp. Interior Glazing: 3/4” thick low-iron laminated, tempered installed by Empire Architectural Metal Corp. Skylights: Insulated-panel or plastic glazing: Doors: Metal doors:Canaan Distributors Corp. Custom Pivot Wall: Steel frame with Forbo tackable surface fabricated/installed by Legere Group, Ltd. Hardware: Hinges: Stanley Closers: Norton Exit devices: Precision,Adams Rite, Von Duprin Security devices: Honeywell,Pass&Seymour, HID Corporation, Sony,Siedle Turnstiles: Smarter Security Systems:Fastlane Plus R400MA Cabinet hardware: Hafele, Blum,McMaster Carr Interior finishes: Archive Lockers: Custom milled interlaced lockers by Legere Group, Ltd. Paints and stains: Wallcoverings: Slate Wall: Amadeus Marble and Granite Corp., Long Island City, NY. Paneling: Bamboo panels: Teragren caramelized vertical grain panels, milled (in Auditorium) and finished with color conversion varnish (at Orientation Room) and installed by Legere Group, Ltd MDF Panels: Great Lakes MDF, Spectratech Color MDF, black, no finish, milled and installed by Legere Group, Ltd. Elevator Mesh Enclosure: Expanded Aluminum Mesh, Mc Nichols, fabricated and installed by United Iron, Mount Vernon, NY. Special surfacing: Floor and wall tile: Resilient flooring: Vinyl Flooring: Lonseal Lonfloor Plain Carpet: Aluminum Flooring: Interior Finish Concrete Floor: Furnishings: Filing Cabinets: Bisley Reception furniture: Fixed seating: Chairs: Conference Chairs: Catifa narrow upholstered with fabric by Maharan. Distributed by Gordon International. The New School Orientation: Catifa narrow, non-upholstered. Distributed by Gordon International. Tables: Custom millwork: color-conversion varnish fabricated, finished and installed by Legere Group, Ltd. Movable seating: High Density Storage: Spacesaver Mechanical Mobile Shelving System. Lecterns: Custom stainless steel + bamboo lectern, manufactured and installed by Legere Group, Ltd. Lighting: SCJDC Signage: Let There Be Neon, New York Digital Clock: Sunrise Systems Inc.,Pembroke, MA Downlights: Xenon Retro Mini Exterior: Bega Linear Uplights Controls: Lutron Conveyance: Plumbing: Sink: custom stainless trough by Chef Restaurant Supply, Lavatory: American Standard Urinal: American Standard Drinking Fountain: Haws Corporation
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