Town Hall Education
Washington, DC
"The Arc, a $27 million complex that ranks architecturally with the beautiful new Strathmore arts center in North Bethesda, ..." -
Marc Fisher, The Washington Post
Ayers/Saint/Gross designed a community center in South Eastern Washington,
D.C. that is envisioned as a "Town Hall" for the neighborhood.
THEARC will offer numerous services and cultural and educational opportunities
and is being built in two phases: .
- The Phase I - Covenant House Washington
Building is a two-story, 27,500 sf community service center that houses
the administration, educational and counseling departments of Covenant
House Washington. In addition, Phase I includes a Day Care Center for CHW
with a tot lot playground.
- The Phase II - Education and Arts Building is a two-story, 82,000
sf building that features a 375- seat theater with a shared public
lobby, a full-size stage, orchestra pit and scene shop, a gymnasium
with a regulation high school basketball court, two cross courts and
bleacher seating for 250 people, a large dance studio, a recital hall,
community room, art studio, a variety of classroom spaces for the partner
programs, and a full-service walk-in community clinic that also will
be the home port for a mobile van health care program sponsored by
Children's
Hospital.
In addition, there will be a fully accessible playground and over
eight acres of wooded parkland available for outdoor recreation When completed,
THEARC is expected to provide a dynamic showcase for the many talents of
this emerging community.
THEARC includes the following member organizations:
Building Bridges Across the River, Covenant House Washington, Boy's and Girl's Clubs of
Greater Washington, Washington Middle School for Girls, Levine School of Music,
Washington Ballet, Children's Health Project of D.C., Parklands Community Center,
Life Pieces to Masterpieces Visual Arts Studio, a future Theater Technology Program
and Technology Center.
Completion: 2003 (phase I)
2005
(phase 2)
Size: 111,000 GSF
Cost: $4,500,000 (phase 1)
$16,000,000 (phase 2 -
not
including Security/Telecom)
