Connection KC Film Center

Nature-Over-Man Folly

Kansas City, Mo

Hayley Ford

encapsulates the dense history of film production in Kansas City and the artist centered section of the city that rose up in the abandoned manufacturing factories that littered the area. Starting with one cheap warehouse studio, the diverse area has homed the works of many great, Kansas and Missouri artists. This self-built city of creativity is comprised of many different mediums of art, and this Center is a space designed to be a place where the various interconnected parts and people come together to become a whole.

Taking inspiration off many of the buildings in the downtown area, the facade was influenced in materiality, but the core shape of the building and some of it’s key detailing such as the windows came from the original film strip and it’s appeal that has attracted people to the movies for generations

Exploded Axonometric

This building offers a variety of spaces for different uses and people’s interests. With the communal areas towards the main entrance, as you go behind the curtain- or go upstairs- you are lead to more niche areas for students and the staff of the building. Following the shape of the facade, the interior elements are aligned in a curve providing effortless circulation within each of floors and the leading staircase adds ease going between them.