OCTAGON ART CENTER RENOVATION
AS 09
The Octagon Center for the Arts is a non-profit community art organization located in the downtown Ames Main Street Cultural District. While restoring and preserving the current facade, the design challenge was a total redesign of an aging, deteriorating, and unfunctional interior. The resulting design is an open and fluid floor plan allowing light to penetrate deep into the building. Sculptural ribbons add an element of beauty and guide people’s circulation through the art center while cutting holes in the floors allowing light and visual connections between spaces.