Current use: |
New home to jazz studies at Marshall and the offices of the Marshall Artist Series and the Jazz Forum, an intimate performance space and recording studios. |
Location: |
Fifth Avenue, adjacent to Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center, east side. |
Designers: |
The Lukmire Partnership, from Arlington,Va. |
Completed: |
2000 |
Name: |
For Joan C. Edwards, benefactor, a combi- nation of her name (Jo-) and her husband James (-mie, for Jimmie). |
Added to the Edwards Art Center, a two story, 12700 sq. ft. building that takes the form of a large, vaulted volume separated from the existing Fine Arts Building. The work consisted of a deep foundation system, brick glass, block with a built-up and a metal roof system. The interior is brick, gypsum board partitions, one elevator and acoustical ceilings.The building serves multiple functions and allows for natural interaction between the jazz center spaces and the performing arts building. Conceived as a series of Administrative spaces arranged around a central "Jazz Forum", the building allows for informal gatherings.
The forum space may be used for intimately scaled "club-like" jazz performances, meetings or classes. The first level houses the Artist's Series administrative offices, a classroom, two practice rooms and a multi-media center. The second floor is home to practice rooms, a rehearsal/recording space and a recording studio. Balconies overlooking the jazz forum furnished with lounge chairs and nightclub style tables complete the level.
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The architectural composition is a simple grouping of masses, which play off the banding of the adjacent performing arts building and balance an existing rehearsal space on the opposite side of the complex. The jazz center employs an exuberant palette of materials that serves to distinguish it from its neighbor, in order to give the building its own identity and lift it out of the Performing Arts Center. Technically, the building is more complex than its simple forms reveal. Acoustical separation requirements were applied as recording studios necessitated an extremely quiet environment.
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