展览中心，教育建筑，扩建，加拿大汉密尔顿市

建筑师：dpai architecture

面积：10000ft2

年份：2015

摄影师： Revelateur Studio

制造商: EQUITONE, Dulux, Glidden, Kawneer, Kone

Text description provided by the architects. Made possible by a generous donation by Dr. Robert Fitzhenry, a McMaster alumni, the addition and renovation to existing studios and classrooms at McMaster University's School of the Arts (SoTA), honors Robert’s late wife, Andrée, a painter and art collector. dpai was awarded the project on the strength of a compelling process and a profound understanding of the importance of engagement with the arts to preserve a sense of vitality and cross-disciplinarity in the higher learning experience.

The result was a design deeply informed by end-user input that focused on functionally reconfigured and expanded studios, a new light-filled exhibition space, clear and accessible circulation, and the creation of a strong street presence and identity for SoTA, a faculty that had been difficult to access and navigates. The new addition provides vastly expanded floor space and amenities for more equipment-intensive media — printmaking and sculpture — including facilities for lithography, etching, and silkscreen, as well as wood- and metal-working, and one of Canada’s few remaining metal casting facilities housed in a University fine arts facility.

Once-windowless studios for upper-year students have been expanded, and flex-studio and new media facilities balance the use of traditional media with an understanding of the shifting nature of creative practice with the emergence of new tools. Gentle north light pours into the double-height painting studios and the addition of a 25’x25’x25’ glass-enclosed atrium (“the Cube”), provides a powerful environment for critique, exhibition, and performance.

The SoTA’s new urban prominence has strengthened connections with other faculties so that art students can offer their unique perspectives to engineering and humanities students, and vice versa. Because of urban connections at two levels, the highly transparent “cube” is now in frequent demand as an event space on campus, while broadly showcasing the work of students and faculty members during both working critiques and final exhibits.

建筑师提供的文本描述。麦克马斯特大学艺术学院(SoTA)的校友罗伯特·菲茨杰里博士慷慨捐赠，对现有的工作室和教室进行了扩建和翻新，以纪念罗伯特已故的妻子、画家和艺术收藏家安德里。dpai之所以被授予该项目，是基于一个令人信服的过程，以及对与艺术接触的重要性的深刻理解，以在高等学习体验中保持活力和跨学科性。

最终的结果是，最终用户的输入深深影响了设计，重点关注功能上的重新配置和扩展的工作室，一个新的充满阳光的展览空间，清晰和可达的流通，以及为SoTA创造一个强大的街道存在和身份，一个难以访问和导航的教员。新成员提供了极大地扩大面积和设施设备媒体——版画和雕塑——包括设施光刻、腐蚀,丝网印刷,以及木材和金属加工业,和一个加拿大为数不多的金属铸造设备安置在一所大学美术设施。

曾经没有窗户的高年级学生工作室得到了扩展，而flex-studio和新媒体设施平衡了传统媒体的使用，同时理解了随着新工具的出现，创造性实践的性质也发生了变化。柔和的北向光线涌入双层通高的画室，并增加了一个25'x25'x25 '玻璃围合的中庭(“立方体”)，为评论、展览和表演提供了一个强大的环境。

西南交通大学新的城市优势加强了与其他学院的联系，使艺术学生能够向工程学和人文学科的学生提供他们独特的视角，反之亦然。由于城市连接在两个层面上，高度透明的“立方体”现在经常被用作校园活动空间，同时在工作评论和最终展览期间广泛地展示学生和教师的工作。