JSFA - Architecture - Planning - Theatre Consulting

Project Planning

Western Academy of Beijing

Beijing, PRC

Six hundred student early childhood through middle school facility that focuses on information technology and multi-media. It has a flexible 400-seat theatre which then acts as a stage for a 400-seat amphitheatre. It is designed as an environmentally sustainable ("Green") building with vacuum tube solar cells for heating and photo-voltaic cells for electricity from the sun.

Cultural Arts Center of California

Orange County, CA

Architect/Theatre Consultant for a performing arts & arts complex including a 3,000-seat amphitheatre with retractable roof and a 500-seat proscenium theatre plus their support spaces, a 15,000 sq.ft. art museum, art exhibition galleries, restaurants and other support spaces. The 500 seat performing arts theatre is shown.

Complexe Culturel et Administratif de Montréal

Montreal, Canada

Architect for this competition entry for the new Cultural and Administrative Complex in Montreal. The program included three buildings, Bâtiment Administratif et les Commerces, Conservatoire, Maison de l’Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. The placement of the buildings drew in the city and allowed for lively streetscapes, which were reinforced by a perimeter of retail spaces, pedestrian amenities and public lobbies.

CBS Studio Center

Studio City, CA

Master planning for the addition of 13 sound stages (3 feature and 10 television with audience seating).

WRS Entertainment Technology Park

Pittsburgh, PA

Master planning and schematics to accommodate four sound stages for film and television (including audience seating) plus support spaces, production facilities, warehouse and offices.

Chengdu Floraland Amphitheatre
Chengdu Floraland Amphitheatre

Chengdu, PRC

Foreign architect for 2,500-seat amphitheatre.

Guenoc Valley College

Lake County, CA

Architect and facilitator for the programming & master plan for a new 1,200-student, 4 year, full scholarship liberal arts college to be constructed in the rolling hills of Lake County, near Napa County. The college will include the following departments: Fine Arts (Arts, Music, Drama with recital hall and theatre), Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Special academics with Gymnasium, Media Center, Student Union, Administration & Amphitheatre building. The facilities include a 00-seat performing arts center and a 2,000-seat amphitheatre.

Blue Lake County Development
Blue Lake County Development

Chongqing, PRC

This new community design which is a northerly expansion of the world's largest city was the winner of an invited competition for the townhouse sites. It consists of 2,260 low rise housing units, 90% of which are townhouses, and 10% of which are single family, 200 units of 6 story apartments, strip convenience shopping facilities, a small shopping mall, a sports field and sports center and an early childhood/kindergarten school building, an elementary school building with dormitories and a combined middle and upper school building with dormitories. The site features a meandering lake and rolling hills. The design concept is based upon breaking down the housing into 10 neighborhoods with clusters, with informal curving geometries that relate to the geometries of the lake and terrain. The lake has 4 featured locations as community gathering spaces, one of which is by an existing small waterfall at the southeast corner. The clusters have large common open spaces and resting areas. As many of the units as possible are north/south facing for good Feng-Shui with the exception of those orienting east and west to the view of the lake or to the mountains to the west. The building geometries also incorporate curves to relate to the natural environment where practical and solar control devices are used as necessary. The structure for all of the buildings is concrete frame with brick infilling and brick facades. The brick is made from clay on the site. The sports center has tensile structures covering two tennis courts and two basketball courts. This is an organic, humanistic design that will create a warm, inviting and healthy environment for the residents of the community.


	Western Academy of Beijing Beijing, PRC Six hundred student early childhood through middle school facility that focuses on information technology and multi-media. It has a flexible 400-seat theatre which then acts as a stage for a 400-seat amphitheatre. It is designed as an environmentally sustainable ("Green") building with vacuum tube solar cells for heating and photo-voltaic cells for electricity from the sun.


	Cultural Arts Center of California Orange County, CA Architect/Theatre Consultant for a performing arts & arts complex including a 3,000-seat amphitheatre with retractable roof and a 500-seat proscenium theatre plus their support spaces, a 15,000 sq.ft. art museum, art exhibition galleries, restaurants and other support spaces. The 500 seat performing arts theatre is shown.


	Complexe Culturel et Administratif de Montréal Montreal, Canada Architect for this competition entry for the new Cultural and Administrative Complex in Montreal. The program included three buildings, Bâtiment Administratif et les Commerces, Conservatoire, Maison de l’Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. The placement of the buildings drew in the city and allowed for lively streetscapes, which were reinforced by a perimeter of retail spaces, pedestrian amenities and public lobbies.


	CBS Studio Center Studio City, CA Master planning for the addition of 13 sound stages (3 feature and 10 television with audience seating).


	WRS Entertainment Technology Park Pittsburgh, PA Master planning and schematics to accommodate four sound stages for film and television (including audience seating) plus support spaces, production facilities, warehouse and offices.


	Chengdu Floraland Amphitheatre Chengdu, PRC Foreign architect for 2,500-seat amphitheatre.


	Guenoc Valley College Lake County, CA Architect and facilitator for the programming & master plan for a new 1,200-student, 4 year, full scholarship liberal arts college to be constructed in the rolling hills of Lake County, near Napa County. The college will include the following departments: Fine Arts (Arts, Music, Drama with recital hall and theatre), Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Special academics with Gymnasium, Media Center, Student Union, Administration & Amphitheatre building. The facilities include a 00-seat performing arts center and a 2,000-seat amphitheatre.


	Blue Lake County Development Chongqing, PRC This new community design which is a northerly expansion of the world's largest city was the winner of an invited competition for the townhouse sites. It consists of 2,260 low rise housing units, 90% of which are townhouses, and 10% of which are single family, 200 units of 6 story apartments, strip convenience shopping facilities, a small shopping mall, a sports field and sports center and an early childhood/kindergarten school building, an elementary school building with dormitories and a combined middle and upper school building with dormitories. The site features a meandering lake and rolling hills. The design concept is based upon breaking down the housing into 10 neighborhoods with clusters, with informal curving geometries that relate to the geometries of the lake and terrain. The lake has 4 featured locations as community gathering spaces, one of which is by an existing small waterfall at the southeast corner. The clusters have large common open spaces and resting areas. As many of the units as possible are north/south facing for good Feng-Shui with the exception of those orienting east and west to the view of the lake or to the mountains to the west. The building geometries also incorporate curves to relate to the natural environment where practical and solar control devices are used as necessary. The structure for all of the buildings is concrete frame with brick infilling and brick facades. The brick is made from clay on the site. The sports center has tensile structures covering two tennis courts and two basketball courts. This is an organic, humanistic design that will create a warm, inviting and healthy environment for the residents of the community.