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Shenkman Arts Centre (Orleans) Successful completion of the $35 mil- lion Shenkman (Orleans) Arts Centre has meant the realization of a 20-year dream for the Orleans community. The result is an impressive facility combining the innova- tions of a Public Private Partnership (PPP), with a design that overcame difficult topo- graphic conditions and met the challenges posed by the need for a multi-faceted arts centre.


The city contributed the land, but the builders were faced with a site on the edge of a cliff topped by a grove of unhealthy maples, which was nevertheless valued by local dog walkers and residents of a nearby seniors’ community. In preparing the site, Aecon arranged to harvest the wood, re-using as much as pos- sible in carpentry throughout the building, one reason the building could attain LEED Silver status.


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The design also takes advantage of the site slope with an entrance to the theatre at the half-way level, thus creating an auto- matic, natural drop for the seating. Interior design and engineering re- quirements presented special challenges. The theatre specs called for a space that could accommodate concert and amplified music presentations, movies, plays and dance; while the rest of the facility had to house spaces for a woodwork shop, an art gallery, dance, music and painting studios as well as a pottery studio. “The solution to accommodate both live concerts and am- plified music is a mobile enclosure. A con- cert shell for live concert peformances is suspended over the stage in the fly tower,” Triemstra explains.


The 500-seat theatre also required isola- tion from the ambient noise and outside vi- brations as well as nearby Highway 174.


The acoustical requirements for the differ- ent types of performances are managed by a rotating wall paneling system that allows theatre management to select either an ab- sorbing or a reflecting surface.


LEED status required an additional $200,000 of capital investment, but the modifications to mechanical and electrical services will produce long-term efficiencies and reduce operating costs that will provide a payback of the invested capital in less than 10 years, Triemstra notes. Given the difficulties of building on the site and the design’s complications due to the multi-functional performing and visual arts to be accommodated, Triemstra says the work schedule proved to be aggressive: design and construction took from May 2007 to March 2009, with the theatre’s in- augural performance in the first week of June, 2009.


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