DeGeorge Family Innovation & Arts Center

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The Center will be approximately 33,500 square feet and is located on the south side of campus.

Part II, the Center will provide an ideal incubator in which students and teachers from all disciplines will engage in an empowering, electric, and ever-changing environment to ask big questions and arrive at even bigger answers.

features

  • McMorrow Family Lobby
  • Art Gallery
  • The Allison & Bennett Rosenthal Theater
  • Community Keynote Stage & Recital Hall
  • Recital Hall Lobby & Gallery
  • IDEA Incubator Lab with The Ezralow Family IDEA Breakout Room and The Wiczyk Family IDEA Breakout Room
  • Makers & Robotics Deck
  • IDEA Studio
  • The Gordon-Schwartz Family Gallery Celebrating Windward History
  • The Allison & Jeff Mirkin Family Mezzanine
  • Sky Deck

Windward’s IDEA Studio will serve as a space to further the mission of our Entrepreneurship Program: Inspire an entrepreneurial spirit in students; Develop an attitude and desire to explore, experiment, innovate, and create; Embrace that failure is a critical part of the creative process. This open floor plan will allow for collaboration and flexible team dynamics as students approach challenges as strategists, innovators, and design thinkers.- Jeff Gilder '08, Director of Alumni Development and Engagement, Associate Director of Admissions

 

First Floor

McMorrow Family Lobby
Featuring:
  • 1,662 Square Feet
  • Special Exhibits
  • Welcome Center and Reception Space
Art Gallery
Featuring:
  • 1,470 Square Feet and North Foyer
  • Student Art Exhibitions
  • Professional Art Exhibitions
  • Guest Artists & Lectures
  • Bright Ambient Studio Lighting 
  • Showcase Windows Providing External Views from Campus

The Allison & Bennett Rosenthal Theater

Featuring:
  • 6,400 square feet
  • 250 Seats
  • Orchestra Pit
  • Audience Chamber
  • Rear Stage Projection and Control Room
  • Theater, Dance, and Music Performances 
  • Class & Parent Meetings
  • Individual & Group Presentations
  • Guest Speakers
Community Keynote Stage & Recital Hall
Featuring:
  • 4,200 square feet
  • 239 Seats
  • Superior Acoustics for Live Vocal & Instrumental Performance
  • Division Assemblies, Senior Capstone Presentations, TED Talks, Keynote Speakers

*not final design. Image is from Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts.


 

Second Floor—IDEA Floor

•Innovation •Design •Entrepreneurship •Advanced Fabrication

IDEA Incubator Lab with Breakout Rooms
Featuring:
  • 2,515 square feet
  • Engineering studio and robotics classes
  • Open layout for flexibility and creativity
  • 3D tools and building space
  • Hybrid indoor and outdoor learning opportunities
  • 620 square foot outdoor deck on the east side of the Makers Studio & Robotics Lab
  • 313 square foot balcony off the north side of the Makers Studio & Robotics Lab
IDEA Studio
Featuring:
  • 1,775 Square Feet
  • Open Floor Plans for Communication and Collaboration
  • Idea-driven classroom space for entrepreneurship classes
  • 312 square foot balcony off the north side of the Design Thinking & Entrepreneurship Studio

Sky Deck

Featuring:
  • 3,270 Square Feet 
  • Outdoor Event Space
  • Dances 
  • Concerts
  • Banquets