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34-597: The Center is a significant change in focus from the traditional focus on this science and engineering campus, although the Darrin Communication Center is similar. The administration claims that "EMPAC introduces a new model for educating the next generation of leaders, who will be better prepared to solve the complex problems facing our world.” The design architect for the EMPAC is Grimshaw Architects , London and New York, designers of The Eden Project ,

68-442: A 50' x 40' one in the theater and a 60' wide screen in the concert hall. There are two main multi-purpose studio spaces. Studio 1 has 3,500-square-foot (330 m) and has 40-foot-high ceilings, and Studio 2 is 2,500-square-foot (230 m) with 28-foot (8.5 m)-high ceilings. There is also a 1,400-square-foot (130 m) rehearsal studio called Studio Beta, and 4 Artist-in-Residence studios (with one being permanently occupied by

102-569: A form of mass wasting. A distinction is then made between mass wasting by subsidence, which involves little horizontal movement, and mass wasting by slope movement. Soil creep is a slow and long term mass movement. The combination of small movements of soil or rock in different directions over time is directed by gravity gradually downslope. The steeper the slope, the faster the creep. The creep makes trees and shrubs curve to maintain their perpendicularity, and they can trigger landslides if they lose their root footing. The surface soil can migrate under

136-446: A joint investigation into fatalities at Istanbul Airport - nicknamed by workers "the cemetery" as so many have died. By this point, the official death toll was 55, but unofficial estimates suggested the figure could "be higher than 400". Grimshaw was one of four architects employed on the airport's design, three of them UK-based (the other two were Scott Brownrigg and Haptic Architects). As concept architects, Grimshaw ceased working on

170-443: A large mass of earth and rocks down a hill or a mountainside. Landslides can be further classified by the importance of water in the mass wasting process. In a narrow sense, landslides are rapid movement of large amounts of relatively dry debris down moderate to steep slopes. With increasing water content, the mass wasting takes the form of debris avalanches , then earthflows , then mudflows . Further increase in water content produces

204-808: A series of themes that investigate biomimicry, biophilia and ecosystems and their influence on design. Mass wasting Mass wasting , also known as mass movement , is a general term for the movement of rock or soil down slopes under the force of gravity . It differs from other processes of erosion in that the debris transported by mass wasting is not entrained in a moving medium, such as water, wind, or ice. Types of mass wasting include creep , solifluction , rockfalls , debris flows , and landslides , each with its own characteristic features, and taking place over timescales from seconds to hundreds of years. Mass wasting occurs on both terrestrial and submarine slopes, and has been observed on Earth , Mars , Venus , Jupiter's moon Io , and on many other bodies in

238-425: A sheetflood, which is a form of sheet erosion rather than mass wasting. On Earth , mass wasting occurs on both terrestrial and submarine slopes. Submarine mass wasting is particularly common along glaciated coastlines where glaciers are retreating and great quantities of sediments are being released. Submarine slides can transport huge volumes of sediments for hundreds of kilometers in a few hours. Mass wasting

272-495: A special 360-degree film by The Wooster Group entitled There is Still Time..Brother alternating with screenings by Workspace Unlimited. 42°43′44″N 73°41′02″W  /  42.72883°N 73.68396°W  / 42.72883; -73.68396 Grimshaw Architects Grimshaw Architects (formerly Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners ) is an architectural firm based in London. Founded in 1980 by Nicholas Grimshaw ,

306-417: A very muddy stream (stream erosion), without a sharp dividing line. Many forms of mass wasting are recognized, each with its own characteristic features, and taking place over timescales from seconds to hundreds of years. Based on how the soil, regolith or rock moves downslope as a whole, mass movements can be broadly classified as either creeps or landslides . Subsidence is sometimes also regarded as

340-431: Is rock glaciers , which form from rockfall from cliffs oversteepened by glaciers. Landslides can produce scarps and step-like small terraces. Landslide deposits are poorly sorted . Those rich in clay may show stretched clay lumps (a phenomenon called boudinage ) and zones of concentrated shear. Debris flow deposits take the form of long, narrow tracks of very poorly sorted material. These may have natural levees at

374-684: Is a common phenomenon throughout the Solar System, occurring where volatile materials are lost from a regolith . Such mass wasting has been observed on Mars , Io , Triton , and possibly Europa and Ganymede . Mass wasting also occurs in the equatorial regions of Mars, where stopes of soft sulfate -rich sediments are steepened by wind erosion. Mass wasting on Venus is associated with the rugged terrain of tesserae . Io shows extensive mass wasting of its volcanic mountains. Mass wasting affects geomorphology , most often in subtle, small-scale ways, but occasionally more spectacularly. Soil creep

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408-419: Is a general term for any process of erosion that is driven by gravity and in which the transported soil and rock is not entrained in a moving medium, such as water, wind, or ice. The presence of water usually aids mass wasting, but the water is not abundant enough to be regarded as a transporting medium. Thus, the distinction between mass wasting and stream erosion lies between a mudflow (mass wasting) and

442-456: Is rarely apparent but can produce such subtle effects as curved forest growth and tilted fences and telephone poles. It occasionally produces low scarps and shallow depressions. Solifluction produced lobed or sheetlike deposits, with fairly definite edges, in which clasts (rock fragments) are oriented perpendicular to the contours of the deposit. Rockfall can produce talus slopes at the feet of cliffs. A more dramatic manifestation of rockfall

476-474: Is used for virtual reality research, art works, and cinematic presentations. The current system has a 40-foot (12 m) round, 15-foot (4.6 m) tall circular screen which surrounds viewers, who either can walk around or view from swivel chairs. Special 360-degree cameras are used for filming, along with microphones which record directionality. The sound can then be played back on an array of surround-sound speakers, allowing sound projection from any angle toward

510-629: The Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal accounted for 55,860,400 cubic meters (73,062,600 cu yd) of the 128,648,530 cubic meters (168,265,924 cu yd) of material removed while excavating the cut. Rockslides or landslides can have disastrous consequences, both immediate and delayed. The Oso disaster of March 2014 was a landslide that caused 43 fatalities in Oso, Washington , US. Delayed consequences of landslides can arise from

544-526: The London School of Economics , and International Terminal Waterloo . The architect of record is the New York City architectural firm Davis Brody Bond . The engineers for the project are Buro Happold . The main concert hall seats 1,200, and has been lauded as one of the most acoustically perfect concert halls in the world. The acoustical firm Kirkegaard Associates was contracted to work on

578-736: The Solar System . Subsidence is sometimes regarded as a form of mass wasting. A distinction is then made between mass wasting by subsidence, which involves little horizontal movement, and mass wasting by slope movement . Rapid mass wasting events, such as landslides, can be deadly and destructive. More gradual mass wasting, such as soil creep, poses challenges to civil engineering , as creep can deform roadways and structures and break pipelines. Mitigation methods include slope stabilization , construction of walls, catchment dams, or other structures to contain rockfall or debris flows, afforestation , or improved drainage of source areas. Mass wasting

612-533: The Institute President). Studio 1 and Studio 2 are lined with acoustical panels to diffuse sound using innovative paneling designed to simulate the characteristics of tree bark. Different panels are designed to absorb and refract different frequencies of sound. All performance spaces have a maximum noise level of 15 dB, making them some of the quietest artistic presentation spaces in the world. A 360-degree projection system has been developed, which

646-488: The Institute began a large capital campaign and Rensselaer alumnus and trustee Curtis Priem , '82, donated $ 40 million in an unrestricted gift. RPI decided to officially name the project in his honor. Additionally, the Institute received a $ 1 million gift for EMPAC programs from alumnus David Jaffe in 2006. Over 100,000 cubic yards of earth were evacuated from the hill to make room for the structure. RPI has had problems in

680-833: The Norwegian group Verdensteatret , the Japanese collective Dumb Type and a duet performance by pianist Cecil Taylor with Pauline Oliveros a poetry reading by Taylor, and a party DJ'd by Madlib . October 11 was alumni weekend and featured Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis , and October 18 was family weekend and featured Gamelan Galak Tikka, the Ensemble Robot and the Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band . Each weekend also contained numerous lectures and workshops including Johannes Goebel and Pauline Oliveros . Studio 1 Goodman Studio/Theater hosted

714-878: The Sustainability Pavilion, an innovative net-zero building, for Expo 2020 . The firm currently has offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Dubai, Melbourne and Sydney, employing over 600 staff. Grimshaw has 21 partners worldwide: Jolyon Brewis, Keith Brewis, Andrew Byrne, Vincent Chang, Andrew Cortese, Nicholas Grimshaw , William Horgan, Mark Husser, Michael Janeke, Ewan Jones, Annelie Kvick Thompson, Kirsten Lees , Declan McCafferty, Neill McClements, Mark Middleton, Andrew Perez, Juan Porral, Neven Sidor, Neil Stonell, Andrew Thomas, and Andrew Whalley . Major projects, by year of completion and ordered by type, are: In October 2019, UK publications Construction News and Architects' Journal published

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748-843: The audience. EMPAC's first commission, entitled THERE IS STILL TIME..BROTHER, by The Wooster Group, began at EMPAC and then left to tour internationally. The founding director of EMPAC is Johannes Goebel, who led it from 2002 through 2022. Prior to EMPAC, Goebel was previously the director and founder of the Institute for Music and Acoustics at the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany . EMPAC's curatorial team includes Amadeus Julian Regucera, Curator of Music; and Katherine C.M. Adams, Assistant Curator. The founding curatorial team included Kathleen Forde, Curator, Time-Based Arts; Helene Lesterlin, Curator, Dance/Theater; and Micah Silver, Curator, Music. The institute announced plans for

782-586: The construction of a new performance hall in Fall of 2001 with construction costs originally slated at $ 50 million. After a design competition and discussions with architectural firms, the plans were revised with a new construction cost of $ 141 million and completion date of sometime in 2006. While some thought that RPI needed improved music and arts facilities, the increased size and construction cost were seen as unnecessarily expensive by many students and faculty. The project broke ground on September 19, 2003. During 2004

816-517: The firm was one of the pioneers of high-tech architecture . In particular, they are known for their design of transport projects including Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA railway station , Waterloo International railway station and the award-winning Southern Cross railway station which was the recipient of the Royal Institute of British Architects Lubetkin Prize. Grimshaw is behind the design of

850-706: The formation of landslide dams , as at Thistle, Utah , in April 1983. Volcano flanks can become over-steep resulting in instability and mass wasting. This is now a recognised part of the growth of all active volcanoes. It is seen on submarine volcanoes as well as surface volcanoes: Kamaʻehuakanaloa (formerly Loihi) in the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain and Kick 'em Jenny in the Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc are two submarine volcanoes that are known to undergo mass wasting. The failure of

884-455: The influence of cycles of freezing and thawing, or hot and cold temperatures, inching its way towards the bottom of the slope forming terracettes . Landslides are often preceded by soil creep accompanied with soil sloughing —loose soil that falls and accumulates at the base of the steepest creep sections. Solifluction is a form of creep characteristics of arctic or alpine climates. It takes place in soil saturated with moisture that thaws during

918-508: The midpoint of construction. The event was attended by over 3000 people from the region. The expected completion date was moved to sometime in 2008. In January 2008, RPI commissioned lighting designer Jennifer Tipton to create a large lighting display called "Light Above the Hudson". Operational for several weeks, the display drew attention to the center with a 300 by 100-foot (30 m) array of multicolored lights and search lights pointed into

952-509: The past with the instability of the ground on the hillside, a phenomenon known as mass wasting . To prevent the EMPAC from "sliding down the hill", 215 rock anchors were drilled into the ground to stabilize the foundations. At over 210 feet (64 m) long, they are some of the largest anchors in North America. In September 2005, the institute hosted EMPAC 360: On Site + Sound , a multimedia and performing arts presentation to celebrate

986-699: The project before the construction phase, and voiced shock and sadness about what it described as the "alarmingly high number" of subsequent deaths. Grimshaw's first exhibition titled Product + Process debuted in 1988. The firm has since produced four exhibitions: Structure Space + Skin (1993), Fusion (1998), Equilibrium (2000), and Micro to Macro: Grimshaw in New York (2007). The latest exhibition, Equation : Design Inspired by Nature, launched on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) Centre in Singapore. Equation explores

1020-573: The sides of the tracks, and sometimes consist of lenses of rock fragments alternating with lenses of fine-grained earthy material. Debris flows often form much of the upper slopes of alluvial fans . Triggers for mass wasting can be divided into passive and activating (initiating) causes. Passive causes include: Activating causes include: Mass wasting causes problems for civil engineering , particularly highway construction . It can displace roads, buildings, and other construction and can break pipelines. Historically, mitigation of landslide hazards on

1054-678: The sky. The grand opening celebrations were held on three weekends from October 3 to October 19, 2008, with all events free to the public. The inaugural concert was programmed by Micah Silver and Johannes Goebel on October 4 and was a seamless concert that included the Albany Symphony Orchestra with pianist Per Tengstrand , the International Contemporary Ensemble and Vox Vocal Ensemble performing spatial music ranging four hundred years of music composition. Performances were also given by

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1088-409: The summer months to creep downhill. It takes place on moderate slopes, relatively free of vegetation, that are underlain by permafrost and receive a constant supply of new debris by weathering . Solifluction affects the entire slope rather than being confined to channels and can produce terrace-like landforms or stone rivers . A landslide, also called a landslip, is a relatively rapid movement of

1122-467: The system. Extensive computer modeling was done of the ceiling canopy before construction to optimize the transmission of sound waves. EMPAC is the first venue to use Nomex fire-retardant fabric for a ceiling canopy to reflect sound waves. The exterior of the main concert hall is lined with 36,000 square feet (3,300 m) of Western Red Cedar. Grown in sustainable forests in British Columbia,

1156-473: The wood was chosen for its fire-retardant properties. A 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m) glass wall lines the north side of the building. A water/glycol mix circulating through the steel support beams maintains an even temperature and limits condensation on the glass. EMPAC is also LEED Silver certified. EMPAC is also home to a 400-seat theater with an 80′ x 40′ stage, 60′ fly tower, and computer controlled rigging. EMPAC also has two very large projection screens:

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