BOSTON–Kripper Studio announced its partnership with the City of Boston to assess, identify and recommend solutions to enhance and expand the production capabilities for The Strand Theater.
Focusing on the theater’s backstage area Kripper Studio, a minority-owned full-service architecture firm based in Boston, is tasked to assess, identify and recommend solutions to maintain access to the theater’s loading dock as adjacent development proposals take shape. The intention of proposed improvements is to benefit the theater’s production capabilities. Ultimately, The Strand’s goal is to better the experience for touring cast and crew and offer patrons a greater range of concurrent presentations.
Kripper Studio is recognized for their sensitive and creative approach to improving existing buildings for residential and commercial use. The engagement to focus on The Strand Theater is a natural evolution to performing arts venues housed in older buildings with considerable architectural personality and community affinity.
In finding design solutions to improve and enhance existing buildings, architect Amir Kripper, the Founding Principal of Kripper Studio, speaks of taking advantage of the constraints. Specifically for this engagement, the constraints of The Strand’s limited footprint and existing site conditions in relation to the needs of adjacent new development proposals are realities that motivate ingenuity. “Our work for The Strand Theater is a piece of a larger puzzle and my design approach to address the site’s constraints is to combine architectural pieces that at first don’t necessarily match.”
