The Chelsea Center for Performing Arts (CCPA) proposes an opportunistic response to the eccentric urban conditions created by the New York City High Line. 
The project seeks to create a contextually significant piece of architecture, interactions among the performers and audience members via activated building sectors, and a community of artists, ranging from the professional orchestra members to the novices receiving musical training. 
To expand on the High Line, circulation extends towards the CCPA’s outdoor theater and a lobby space where a vertical atrium opens onto a variety of social gathering, lounge, bar, and lobby spaces.
Diagrammatically, the three stacked theaters are plugged into the vertical atrium and cantilevered from the flanking egress cores. Back of house spaces for performers hang underneath and small rehearsal spaces reside alongside the theaters. A voronoi pattern thickens the facade, allocating programmatic spaces for local conditions. Within these spaces, performers rehearse, staff members conduct meetings in a dynamic environment, and audience members await a performance within spatial apertures that frame views of the city.