artiFACT ⌉⌈ scope: academic ⌉⌈ status: thesis project 2011⌉⌈ location: chicago/USA
This proposal for a cultural center that encompass four cinema theaters, two exhibition spaces, a library and educational center, and a bookshop with a cafe comes to fill a large gap that the city of chicago has with an artifact of the kind. The main concept of the project was to integrate the structure with its immediate context physically and culturally, thus blurring the boundaries between architecture and urbanism. This was achieved by means of breaking down the programmatic elements into pieces and extracting entirely the circulation spaces out of the project. Thus, if within one of those circulation spaces moving between the different spaces of the project, the one has the opportunity to experience architecture and urbanism in the same time. The spatial experience of those circulation spaces emphasizes an enmeshed horizons between the architecture of the structure and the surrounding urban fabric.