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Community Maker-space an environmentally responsible space to build community

Lauren Buckley/Capstone Project

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April 2022/Final Presentation

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abstract.

This projects seeks to meet people at a demographic intersection to provide a rich space to responsibly, sustainably, and accessibly create.

By a strategic site selection in a repurposed car dealership, the interior is transformed with the intent of making a space that is imaginative, light, and facilitates social connection through flow and openness.

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research.

PROBLEM: A complex combination of policy, social structures, and economics, has created the most age-segregated society the United States has seen since its conception.

People are living longer, healthier lives than ever before resulting in larger age gaps. Unfortunately, cultural constructs have become barriers to co-mingling and existing across generations. For the elderly, this can result in loneliness and isolation.

For young people, this can result in the loss of perspective and soft-skills that people gain with age.

• more than 40% of seniors regularly experience loneliness • around 40% of people age 16-24 report feeling lonely often or very often

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Peace by piece is an intergenerational, after-school community art program which brings older adults and youth together each week to create quilts. Ages range from 5 to 90, with expert quilters to novices. This group exchanges skills while creating friendships across age/social barriers.

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research.

TAKEAWAYS:

connection is key to long-lasting friendships & friendships can form across any age when given the opportunity

successful connections are made organically by pairing people with a mutual interest or activity

PROJECT APPLICATION & BROADER QUESTION:

What spatial context can be used as a way to bring people together across social barriers?

A similar model as the precedent will

populations as an interest. By providing

be constructed as a means of creating

a space for resources, learning, &

community/connection through activities

making, people will be empowered to

that are accessible for all ages. The

utilize a variety of sewing techniques by

activity to achieve this will be the use of

both hand and machine methods in a

sewing and textile art. This is a craft

collaborative, relaxed environment.

familiar to older generations as well as something re-surging in younger

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sewing/textile art. the activity • manipulating form of fabric thru deconstruction or alteration using hand stitch or machine methods, this includes....

• alteration of garments

• repair of rips/holes

• deconstruction of misc fabric to create

quilts, bags, wall art, curtains, etc

the why • broad range of activities that are adaptable to various....

• ages

• physical capabilities

• size and length of time projects take can range

• projects can be individual or collaborative

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primary goal

SOCIAL: Connect people across social barriers, specifically age.

One method to achieving organic

side by side instructors in a collaborative

relationships, is bonding over a mutual

learning environment. The site, context,

activity. The “activity” becomes a catalyst & co-location of other resources will be a for getting to know someone else while

vital component of this as a successful hub

investing in a skill. Using the broad activity of for making. sewing as the basis for a maker-space, the user will decide through supplied resources a method in which they would like to create

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secondary goal

SUSTAINABILITY: Utilize existing resources within the local community.

As I’ve chosen a form of art that has evolved affordable secondhand items including, into a process of industrial pollution and over clothes, furniture, and various housewares. production. How can I create space to use Not only is the thrift shop a valuable resources responsibly and sustainably? resource for many, it is a sustainable form How does this tie into an initiative and site of shopping. The site will be co-lated next to that can be expound upon.

St Vincent de Paul of Cincinnati is a community outreach with various facets.

One specific outreach is their donation and resell centers. This space provides

an existing St. Vincent de Paul thrift shop.

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site. thrift shop

proposed site

2301 Ferguson Road Cincinnati, OH 45238

Western Hills

Cincinnati Suburbs Just 15 minutes from downtown Cincinnati, is the suburb of Western Hills, with a diverse demographic in terms of age, income, ethnicities, and more.

In this community a St.V incent de Paul thrift shop occupies a former car dealership. This is approximately 25,000 SF of secondhand goods.

What opportunity does this present? Directly adjacent to the thrift shop is a current car dealership of approximately 20,000 SF. I’m proposing to occupy half the tenant space closest to the thrift shop to transform into a textile maker-space.

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Transportation Metro Bus Line The site having multiple intersections of transportation types is essential for accessibility.

The bus line gives students and those who are unable to drive the ability to get to the facility.

Institutions Dater High School West High Proximity to high schools allow engagement and learning at the facility as an after school initiative.

There is a both a public and private school about .25 miles away.

Recreation Racket Club An existing health club across the street sets the tone for a social based initiative.

In an otherwise mostly commercial shopping area, this type of facility brings a different typology close by.

adjacencies.

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challenge.

• breaking the grid/box

The current architectural conditions present the opportunity

• transforming the generic

for a dramatic transformation. The plan in uninhibited by structure-it acts as a relatively clean slate. The flip side of this is lack of conditions to respond to. Concepts will weigh in heavily.

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concepts.

TEXTILE ART

These primary drivers will operate

sustainability. The interior intervent

function of the maker-space-textile

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in tandem to provide an enriching user experience rooted in community and

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typology.

THE TEXTILE PARTITION flexible, transparent, inspiring

POCHE reactive, flowing, transforming

THE WORK SURFACE shared, practical, inviting

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built-in tools

planning/collaboration/LEARNING

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partition system.

movable/flexible/adjustable opacity

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textile inspo.

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materiality.

conceptually, materials wer

tiles. The concept of a make

designated for making. This

“UNSPECIFIED FINISHES

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er-space makes a certain neutrality & utilitarian appropriate for the spaces

s palette is the SPECIFIED FINISHES, while accounting for the mixture of

S”, which includes the things people make, store, and use in the space.

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maker-spac

program Transform Workspace.

Alter Workspace.

Equipped with sewing machines, tools, workstations, storage in a collaborative setting.

One large workstation equipped with sewing tools in a setting for instruction.

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Help Desk.

Fabric Processing.

The first stop if approaching from the thrift shop, this gives clear, concise directions on how to navigate the space and get started.

Equipped with steamers and washing/dryer units to clean fabric before working on it, if needed.

Resource.

Amenity.

This space is a hub for reading material and planning tools.

This space will also function as a shared material space-where you can pull small necessities-like thread, buttons, and scrap fabric.

Includes cafe, lounge, and a small shop to purchase tools to bring home. These zones offer rest and nourishment for nonwork time.

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modes of making.

Transform. “make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of.”

The first step in deciding what will be done with the textile you’ve brought to the space. The section of workspace is designated for creating something completely new out of the fabric, like using scraps to make a quilt or a tote bag.

Alter. “tailor (clothing) for a better fit or to conform to fashion.”

The first step in deciding what will be done with the textile you’ve brought to the space. The section of workspace is designated for alterations/repairs on clothes the user would like to keep as what it is.

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sequence. for a first-time user

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Help Desk a worker stationed here helps determine goals for the textile and gives direction on where to go next

stop 2.

Resource Center grab a couple books on beginner alteration instructions to take home

stop 3.

Open Workspace observe other users working on their craft; get familiarized with equipment and tools

stop 4.

Shop purchase necessary tools to get started right away at next visit

stop 5.

Cafe grab a coffee and chat at the bar top

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intervention.

EXISTING SHELL

INTERIOR BASED INTERVENTION

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Lauren Buckley/Capstone Project

April 2022/Final Presentation (/stitch/ space)

Thank you !