Studio II
East Branch Carnegie Library
Program:
Create a flexible neighborhood destination symbolizing the intrinsic qualities unique to the community by providing a place for local residents and visitors alike to pause, meet, and host events. This community center is conceived to be developed in conjunction with the programming of the existing Nashville Public Library East Branch, which adjoins the project site. The community center and the library are to share the existing parking lot and shall have a physical connection between them, such that one can freely walk between buildings without being exposed to the elements.
Requirements:
Program:
Create a flexible neighborhood destination symbolizing the intrinsic qualities unique to the community by providing a place for local residents and visitors alike to pause, meet, and host events. This community center is conceived to be developed in conjunction with the programming of the existing Nashville Public Library East Branch, which adjoins the project site. The community center and the library are to share the existing parking lot and shall have a physical connection between them, such that one can freely walk between buildings without being exposed to the elements.
Requirements:
- Flexible Main Even Space: 2,500sf minimum
- Art Gallery/Flexible Secondary Event Space: 500sf
- Outdoor Gathering Space
- Main Lobby and Welcome Desk: 750sf minimum
- Café: Min 400sf (located within the lobby with direct access to outside)
- (4) Offices: 100sf minimum each
- Conference Room: 250sf (near offices)
- (4) Gender Neutral, Single Restrooms
- Storage Room: 250sf (easily accessible from main event space)
- Mechanical Room: Minimum 500sf
Nashville Reservoir Water Research Institute
PROGRAM: AS A STATE-OF-THE-ART RESEARCH CENTER, THE NEW NASHVILLE INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH WILL SUPPORT BOTH RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ABOUT THE STATUS OF WATER IN OUR WORLD AND LOCAL REGIONS. IT WILL DRAW SCIENTISTS AND EXPERTS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE, SERVING AS A COLLABORATIVE HUB FOR THE ONGOING RESEARCH INTO WATER SUSTAINABILITY. TO INFORM THE PUBLIC ON THE WORK THE INSTITUTE IS DOING AND TO ENCOURAGE INDIVIDUALS AND THE COMMUNITY TO PLAY A PART IN WATER SUSTAINABILITY, THE MUSEUM COMPONENT OF THE BUILDING WILL WELCOME VISITORS EXPLORE EVERY FACET OF WATER FROM PLEASURE TO POLITICS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. ARCHITECTS ARE OFTEN TASKED WITH DERIVING SIMPLE, ELEGANT SOLUTIONS FROM A VAST ARRAY OF HIGHLY COMPLEX INFLUENCERS (STAKEHOLDERS, SITE IMPLICATIONS, POLITICS, PROGRAM, STRUCTURE, SYSTEMS, CULTURE, WEATHER, ETC.) IN THIS PROJECT, YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO GENERATE A THOUGHTFUL, INTEGRATIVE, AND SENSITIVE RESPONSE TO THE PROGRAMMATIC, PHYSICAL, AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS OF THIS PROJECT. REQUIREMENTS:
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Lewisburg, TN
Program: Design the elevations of the proposed floor plan (provided) applying consideration of composition, structure, and architectural syntax. Emphasis should be placed on effective use of the Design Elements and Design Principles. Context should be balanced with the stated linguistic intent Site: The lot dimensions are 127’ long and 42’ wide. The building will set back from the alley at the rear of the lot to allow for parking, trash and other site necessities. The building is 105’ long and 41’ wide. Client: The Granddaughter of John Crowe Ransom has purchased the corner lot at 201 W. Commerce Street in Lewisburg, TN for the purpose of developing a place of literary development with a focus on poetry. Like her grandfather, she believes in the power of linguistics to enhance the human mind and spirit. Returning to the TN area after years of living in the Northeast , she wants to bring this enhancing opportunity to a small town similar to the ones that formed her grandfather. Her own writing contemplates the dichotomies of modern life and thought without abandoning reasonable and established linguistic structure similar to her grandfather’s work. The new center will provide a gathering place for the local community to hear auditory recitations of local writers and classic literary works, learn literary structures and be encouraged to write for themselves and to study established local writers' work. The working name of the Center is “Fugitives and Critics”. JCR’s granddaughter will be the curator of the center and will live upstairs. She is hopeful that the center’s location within the Square in Lewisburg will encourage reinvestment into the struggling town center and as a resident on the Courthouse Square will signal the importance of the arts and her investment into the community. |