The Creative Community Center

Richmond Creative Community Center will serve as a meeting place in the local community. Offering facilities for individual and collaborative creative work as well as events and visits, the target group will be local youths with creative interests.

The program will include:

- individual workspaces

- simple accomodation

- common workspaces and workshops

- flexible indoor spaces for events and exhibitions

- flexible outdoor spaces for events and exhibitions

as well as practical functions like tiolets, bathrooms, kitchen, sistern and kitchen garden.

View from the yard showing part of northern facade of the cell block. Ca 1900 (Landmarks Archive, St. Croix)

North Garden Public area, flexible outdoor space for events and exhibitions

Collaborative work Individual work and accomodation

South Garden Kitchen, eating and kitchen garden Collaborative work

The Local Artist The Artist in Residence

Crucian youth (15-25) interested in creatvie work like photography, writing, painting and music.

Each person will get access to a individual workspace - former cells, 6m 2 - as well as workshop facilities for music, painting and photography, kitchen and common workspaces for collaboration. Visitor from the neighbouring islands or foreign visitors, collaborating in creative work with the local artists. The artist in residence will have access to a private room for sleeping as well as workshop facilities, kitchen and common workspaces.

Including artist in residence facilitates the opportunity of cultural exchange, interesting creative collaborations and international networking.

The Local Group The Visiting Group

The site will be open for all locals to use as a social hang out. They will primarily have access to common outdoor facilities.

Common indoor spaces are possible to rent for events in the community. The common outdoor facilities will be open for visitors and tourists, interested in the historic building or the creative work.

During events hosted by the artists, workshop spaces might be used as vendors or exhibition spaces, showing the artists work.

Cells will be used as individual workspace for target group, as well as simple accomodation for artists in residence, visiting in creative collaboration with the local youths.

Flexible interior will facilitate standing work, seated work or sleeping.

Individual workspace will create opportunities for constentration in a creative enviroment. Text work, music, painting and photography will be the creative fields in focus for designing of the individual workspace. Diagrammatic section of cell block.

Common corridor for all local artists and artists in residence facilitates the opportunity of networking and collaboration in a creative enviroment Conseptual cross section of cell block 1:200