This was a student project by Ryan Whitby for Michael Denison's ARCH 242 course, Winter 2008. Project statement: Dealing with the growing arts district, the Short North, we were prompted to design a multi-use complex that would satisfy various programmatic needs. The program required a gallery, cafe, gift shop, office space, community arts class room, apartments, and two studio-lofts. A study of broken glass created an operation to arrange the program in a way in which each space clearly defined itself as a disjointed piece of the overall system. The programmatic arrangement in addition to the transparency of the building enhances visual interactions and creates an atmosphere that is chaotic and provocative. The literal transparency of the building denounces the use of opaque material to create private spaces; instead it creates private sectors through spatial arrangement. This work is a part of the online collections of the Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archives, The Ohio State University.
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