Higher Education
USC Band and Dance
Band Hall & Dance Facility
University of South Carolina
The program for this 34,000 square-foot facility poses an interesting challenge, at once providing a much-needed improvement to the practice facilities currently used by the 250-member marching band, while also creating a new identity for the newly accredited dance program at the University. On a formerly neglected and oddly-shaped site wedged between two railroads, an elevated pedestrian walkway, and a small, utilitarian fabrication shop for the School of Engineering, the building attempts to become as narrow as possible in order to allow for the adjacent 110-yard long practice field and other related site access elements. The dual-level plan provides for an independent entry for dance on the lower level, and for
Photography by Brian Dressler.

