Arts + Culture
Roddy Performing and Fine Arts Center
Chattanooga, TN
CLIENT:
Baylor School
COMPLETION:
1998
SIZE:
52,000 sq. ft.
DESCRIPTION:
Designed in 1995 as one of three buildings in an arts village on the Baylor School campus in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Roddy Performing Arts Center, along with the Ireland Studio Arts Building and the renovated “Old Armory” music education building provide educational space for over 1100 middle school and high school students. The buildings were designed to contextually fit into Baylor’s collegiate gothic academic hill village.
The Roddy Performing Arts Center includes a state of the art, 150 seat black box theater and full working theater shop to provide Baylor Students the opportunity to both construct the sets and props for each dramatic performance and then to participate in the actual performance. Those students who may be less inclined to walk onto the stage as an actor are still given the opportunity to become valuable assets to the whole production as they learn hands on crafts and skill.
The Roddy Performing Arts Center includes a state of the art, 150 seat black box theater and full working theater shop to provide Baylor Students the opportunity to both construct the sets and props for each dramatic performance and then to participate in the actual performance. Those students who may be less inclined to walk onto the stage as an actor are still given the opportunity to become valuable assets to the whole production as they learn hands on crafts and skill.