Photo by Connie Zhou/JBSA

NYU John A. Paulson Center

New York, NY

KieranTimberlake | 2023 Completion | 750,000 sf

The John A. Paulson Center packs three theatres, an orchestral rehearsal space, classrooms, study space, lounges, a Commons, various athletics facilities including an underground pool, faculty housing, and a freshman residential college into one superblock building in Greenwich Village.

Rendering by Brooklyn Digital Foundry

My Role

My work on this project included:

Rendering by Brooklyn Digital Foundry

The South Theater Lobby

As the primary theater entry for the Paulson Center, the South Lobby seeks to embody music and drama. The wood fin patterning along the mezzanine's swooped railing is derived from the amplitude of musical bits taken from Audacity and briefly processed in Grasshopper. 

CNC milled wood fin construction was studied extensively in mock-ups.
Rendering by Brooklyn Digital Foundry

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