The Shed, a Center for the Arts / Diller Scofidio + Renfro

The Shed, a Center for the Arts / Diller Scofidio + Renfro

The Shed, a Center for the Arts / Diller Scofidio + Renfro - Facade, Windows, CityscapeThe Shed, a Center for the Arts / Diller Scofidio + Renfro - Windows, CityscapeThe Shed, a Center for the Arts / Diller Scofidio + Renfro - Windows, SteelThe Shed, a Center for the Arts / Diller Scofidio + Renfro - ChairThe Shed, a Center for the Arts / Diller Scofidio + Renfro - More Images+ 4

  • Collaborating Architects: Rockwell Group
  • Construction Management: Sciame Construction
  • Structural Design, Façade Engineering And Kinetic Engineering Services: Thornton Tomasetti
  • Mep And Fire Protection: Jaros Baum & Bolles
  • Owner’s Representative: Levien & Company
  • Kinetic Systems Consultant: Hardesty & Hanover
  • Acoustics / Audio / Visual Consultant: Akustiks
  • Theater Consultant: Fisher Dachs Associates
  • Structural Steel Fabricator: Cimolai
  • Etfe Fabricator: Vector Foiltec
  • Code Consultants: Code Consultants Inc
  • Security Consultants: Ducibella Venter & Santore
  • Graphic Design And Wayfinding: Other Means
  • Façade Maintenance: Entek Engineering
  • Waterproofing: James R. Gainfort
  • Specifications: Construction Specifications Inc.
  • Audio Visual Consultant: Akustiks
  • Graphic Design: Other Means
  • Wayfinding: Other Means
  • Audiovisual Consultant: Akustiks
  • City: New York
  • Country: United States
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The Shed, a Center for the Arts / Diller Scofidio + Renfro - Facade, Windows, Cityscape
© Iwan Baan

Text description provided by the architects. The Shed is a nonprofit cultural organization that commissions, develops, and presents original works of art, across all disciplines, for all audiences. The Shed’s Bloomberg Building can physically transform to support artists’ most ambitious ideas. Its eight-level base building includes two levels of gallery space; the versatile Griffin Theater; and The Tisch Skylights, which comprise a rehearsal space, a creative lab for local artists, and a skylit event space. The McCourt, an iconic space for large-scale performances, installations, and events, is formed when The Shed’s telescoping outer shell is deployed from over the base building and glides along rails onto the adjoining plaza.

The Shed, a Center for the Arts / Diller Scofidio + Renfro - Windows, Cityscape
© Iwan Baan

The Shed’s open infrastructure can be permanently flexible for an unknowable future and responsive to variability in scale, media, technology, and the evolving needs of artists. The Shed’s 120-foot tall (37 m) movable shell is made of an exposed steel diagrid frame, clad in translucent cushions of a strong and lightweight Teflon- based polymer, called ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE). This material has the thermal properties of insulating glass at a fraction of the weight. The Shed’s ETFE panels are some of the largest ever produced, measuring almost 70 feet (21 m) in length in some areas.

The Shed, a Center for the Arts / Diller Scofidio + Renfro - Windows, Steel
© Timothy Schenck

The Shed has an energy-conscious design using a radiant heating system within the plaza construction and a variable forced air heating and cooling system serving the occupied portions of the shell for maximum efficiency. The building is designed to achieve LEEDSilver certification and to exceed New York’s energy codes by 25%, which is required of all new buildings on city-owned land or using city-provided funds. Despite the shell’s two-million-cubic-foot interior, only the lower 30% will need to be temperature controlled. The Plaza has a radiant-heat floor plate.

The Shed, a Center for the Arts / Diller Scofidio + Renfro - Facade, Windows
© Timothy Schenck

The Shed’s kinetic system is inspired by the industrial past of the High Line and the West Side Rail Yard. Based on gantry cranes commonly found in shipping ports and railway systems, the kinetic system comprises a sled drive on top of the base building and bogie wheels guided along a pair of 273-foot-long (83 m) rails on Level 2 (Plaza Level). The primary materials are structural steel, ETFE, insulated glass, and reinforced concrete.

The Shed, a Center for the Arts / Diller Scofidio + Renfro - Chair
© Timothy Schenck

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Address:10 Hudson Yards 24th Floor, 10 Hudson Yards, 347 10th Ave, New York, NY 10001, United States

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Cite: "The Shed, a Center for the Arts / Diller Scofidio + Renfro" 10 Apr 2019. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/914639/the-shed-a-center-for-the-arts-diller-scofidio-plus-renfro> ISSN 0719-8884

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