INTERIOR URBANISM

LIBERTY CENTER | LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, OHIO

Interior urbanism explores the tension between indoor and outdoor environments. Liberty Center is an urbanized multiuse center with both indoor and outdoor environments to bring together the community’s recreational, social and civic passions. Starting with the interior, the shopping mall resembles similar characteristics of an interiorized urban space. The double-story mall has a large skylight that extends the majority of the length of the space making the interior and exterior feel connected as one. The interior storefronts that line both sides of the mall give the feeling of walking down the street. In addition to the interior mall, Liberty Center has shops, restaurants, parks, and movie theaters on the exterior streets. While these are outside they are still located within the center, it creates the feeling of being in a small interiorized urban area. The interior of some of these spaces begins to flow outside into the street space creating outdoor seating areas connecting the interior and exterior. Green areas and in-between spaces centered within these interiorized exterior streets create a space for people to relax, perform, and create.