Civic Space

Design 6 Personal Class Project

Supervisor Michael Montoya michael2086@ufl.edu

Spring 2020

Downtown Jacksonville Community Center focuses on the idea of creating a sense of locality for the people living downtown through a community garden idea. The third level of the building is an outdoor cafe that uses the vegetables that are grown in the garden in some of the dishes. The two upper roofs contain several gardens for people to actively use to learn how to grow food in a sustainable way. The Community Center explores the idea of transforming Hemming Park into a community garden to bring new life and a sense of place to an area that suffers from a lack of identity.