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project: Pratt Institute Main Campus
location: Brooklyn, NY
date: opened 2007
contact: hMa hanrahanMeyers architects

The JCT Pratt Pavilion is a ten thousand (10,000) square foot project with a freestanding pavilion gallery for showing student art, located on the main Pratt Institute campus in Brooklyn. The gallery is approximately one thousand square feet, with twenty foot ceilings. Lighting design is by Peter Barna, principal of Light + Space Associates. The cost for the project, which includes a ground floor entry, a basement area below, and a connecting bridge between two existing buildings, was approximately $300 per square foot.

Pratt Pavilion was recognized for design excellence with a Project Design Award from the AIA New York Chapter in 2004. In 2006, Pratt Pavilion was published on Archidose’s ‘A Weekly Dose of Architecture’ blog-site; is scheduled for publication in Architectura Viva (AV Magazine), Spain; and will be featured in an upcoming Phaidon Press book about new architecture in Brooklyn.

Pratt Pavilion is the main public space on the Pratt Campus.

Pratt Institute circa 1900 : Small Privately Owned Institute
-  Three buildings with three distinct programs: Library, Engineering, Art / Architecture


Pratt Institute circa 1990 : Unplanned Dispersion
-  Enlarged campus with diverse buildings
-  Programs dispersed randomly throughout various large, anonymous brick industrial lofts
-  No distinct image
-  Building Entrances oriented toward streets instead of campus


Pratt Institute circa 2007 : Convergence
-  Rebranding of the campus, making campus mall the focal point
-  Programs placed into focused groupings in single building entities with entrances turned in facing the mall
-  Original buildings plus new buildings and additions give a 'branded' image to the campus


Pratt Institute main campus, Brooklyn, NY

     

      
'before shot' : location of the JCT Pratt Pavilion (l)
exterior of the JCT Pratt Pavilion at dusk (r)


the Design Center Pavilion at night : the building features a rear-screen projection for films and slideshows

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