MCC剧院由一群年轻演员、作家和导演于1986年创立，现在是纽约领先的非百老汇剧团之一。MCC要求我们为他们的艺术总监、剧作家、演员、技术人员、青年项目和赞助人社区创建一个家。他们想要一个允许成员之间合作和协同的设施。灵活地同时运行多部作品，以及允许他们扩大范围和雄心的空间是至关重要的。

MCC Theater was founded in 1986 by a collective of young actors, writers and directors, and is now one of New York’s leading off Broadway theater companies. MCC asked us to create a home for their community of artistic directors, playwrights, actors, technicians, youth program, and patrons. They wanted a facility that allowed for collaboration and synergy between its members. Flexibility to run multiple productions simultaneously and spaces allowing for them to expand their range and ambition was critical.

我们共同制定了一个方案，其中包括一个250个座位的前厅剧院和一个99个座位的灵活配置的表演空间。大厅被想象成一个景观，可供整个MCC社区在一天内充分使用。排练、工作室、更衣室和后台空间被提供来支持表演空间。此外，还为MCC的全职员工提供了可容纳40名员工的行政和办公空间。

We worked together to develop a program, which included a 250-seat proscenium theater and a 99-seat flexibly configured performance space. The lobby was imagined as a landscape to be fully used throughout the day, by the entire MCC community. Rehearsal, workshop, dressing room and back of house spaces were provided to support the performance spaces. And administrative and co-working spaces for a staff of forty were provided for MCC’s full time staff.

我们的目标是使剧院的空间温暖、适应性强、私密，具有最佳的声学效果和良好的视线。原始、坦率的外观掩盖了内部体验的私密性。我们希望建筑能够展示一种复杂的解决方案，通过对特定环境本身的仔细和细微的接受来实现。我们认为这与MCC制作情感真实的当代戏剧的过程有关系。

We set out to make the theater spaces warm, adaptable and intimate, with optimum acoustics and excellent sight lines. The raw, frank appearance belies the intimate nature of the experience within. We wanted the architecture to demonstrate a complex resolution achieved through a careful and nuanced acceptance of the given environment itself. We saw in this a relationship to the process by which MCC makes emotionally honest contemporary theater.

Architects: Andrew Berman Architect
Area: 27000 ft²
Year: 2018
Photographs: Michael Moran
Lead Architects: Andrew Berman
Clients:MCC Theater
Engineering:Gilsanz Murray Steficek, Altieri Sebor Wieber, Gilsanz Murray Steficek LLP
Consultants:Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design
City:New York
Country:United States