Tori Vick
I believe that architecture should be available to all. It should be a resource that everyone can use and something that everyone can participate in.
FORWARD JUSTICE
Growing up, good and nice buildings felt inaccessible to me. Even if the space was labeled as a museum or a school building, it still felt as if I wasn’t included in the larger picture. Part of what lead me to architecture was the awe that I experienced when visiting these beautifully designed spaces. There was a sense that there was something greater than me and I was interested in that. However, I was more interested in the relationship between belonging and that feeling of awe. That relationship to me, is similar to a person’s wants and needs. Some architecture only fulfills a person’s wants or may put them in a state of awe. But does it meet their needs? A community center may be built in a community that needs it, but if it is not accessible or welcoming, the end result may just be a beautiful building that no one uses. My goal to first, meet the needs of the people who the space is for. Then make sure that the form and design of the space is welcoming and accessible to everyone. I believe that following this idea will lead me to not only a beautiful design but to create a authentic space to meet needs in an awe-inspiring way.
Quote
Giancarlo de Carlo “In reality, architecture is too important by now to be left to the architects. A real change is necessary, therefore, which will encourage new characteristics in the practice of architecture and new behaviour patterns in its authors. … Therefore the intrinsic aggressiveness of architecture and the forced passivity of the user must dissolve in a condition of creative and decisional equivalence where each is the architect, and every architectural event is considered architecture. The expedient of ’not reading the surroundings’ by the use of a linguistic analysis which excludes all judgment on the use and consumption of the event, corresponds in fact, to an ideological, political, social, and cultural falsification which has no counterpart in other disciplines… The phase of formulating the hypothesis corresponds technically to what is called in authoritarian planning ‘the project’. But in authoritarian planning this means translating into organizational and morphological structures, functional and expressive objectives that have been defined once and for all- or which are easily frozen because they follow an institutional, and therefore predictable, logic of behaviour and representation. In process planning, by contrast, the objectives find their definition in the course of the process itself: they are defined through continual interaction between the pressure of real needs and images of spatial configurations. In this process, needs are refined and configurations perfected until they reach a condition of equilibrium, even if some instability remains due to the innate mobility of the process. Thus the function of planning is not to block further interpretation of reality with a permanent and immobile form but, on the contrary, to open up a dialectical process in which reality expands continuously…” - Architecture’s Public “The designer’s job is no longer to produce finished and unalterable solutions, but to extract solutions from a continuous confrontation with those who will use his work. A work of architecture, besides improving the material conditions of those for whom it is built, should facilitate the human need to communicate through self-representation. Therefore, the structure of the work should be arranged so as to permit continual adaptations and transformations, which can themselves become extensions of the design. If on the wider scale, participation is impossible, one must give up working on that scale, or to be more exact, one must arrive at it through the integration of multiple operations on the smaller scale.” - An Architecture of Participation
Precedents
Les Quinconces Cultural Center Babin+Renaud LE MANS, FRANCE 2014
Precedents
Mont-Laurier Multifunctional Theater Les architectes FABG MONT-LAURIER, CANADA 2015
Precedents
Meyer Memorial Trust LEVER Architecture PORTLAND, OREGON 2020
Parti & Program
Program
Area (sq ft)
Notes
Lobby
3000
Large open space for gathering on first floor
Exhibition Hall
2700
Hall space to hold viewings for local art, auditory exhibitions, and dance
Coffee Shop
600
Small coffee shop to serve the center and local Raleigh area
Library
1300
Public library available to all to use for educational purposes and for a place to study
Community Pantry
1000
Local community pantry under Forward Justice
Multipurpose Room
2000
A truly flexible space for gathering for the community
Gathering
1050
Flex space attached to the kitchen intended for any community needs
Kitchen
200
Local community kitchen to be used for gathering. It will also be available for larger community use
Classrooms
1900
Classrooms for Forward Justice use and for any other community need
Patio
2000
Outdoor space provided on the third floor overlooking Moore Square
Forward Justice Library
1500
A legal library under the direction and use of Forward Justice
Forward Justice Offices
2200
Office suite containing offices, conference rooms, and kitchenette for Forward Justice
Storage
600
Mechanical
1950
Total (Net)
22,000
Total (Gross)
36,000
Model Context
Exterior View
EXHIBITION SPACE
LIBRARY
LOBBY
COFFEE
FORWARD JUSTICE LEGAL LIBRARY
MECH. ROOM
Site Plan
Plan 1
EXHIBITION SPACE
LIBRARY
Lobby
LOBBY
COFFEE
FORWARD JUSTICE LEGAL LIBRARY
MECH. ROOM
Exhibition Hall
EXHIBITION SPACE
LIBRARY
LOBBY
COFFEE
FORWARD JUSTICE LEGAL LIBRARY
MECH. ROOM
EXHIBITION SPACE
LIBRARY
LOBBY
Library
COFFEE
FORWARD JUSTICE LEGAL LIBRARY
MECH. ROOM
Plan 2
Plan 3
OPEN TO BELOW
OPEN TO BELOW
MECH. ROOM
Interior View
STORAGE
COMMUNITY PANTRY
FORWARD JUSTICE OFFICES
MULTIPURPOSE ROOM
GATHERING & KITCHEN
MECH. ROOM
Patio View
STORAGE
EXTERIOR PATIO
CLASSROOM
CLASSROOM
Section Perspective
EXHIBITION SPACE
LIBRARY
LOBBY
COFFEE
FORWARD JUSTICE LEGAL LIBRARY
MECH. ROOM
EXHIBITION SPACE
LIBRARY
Section 2
LOBBY
COFFEE
FORWARD JUSTICE LEGAL LIBRARY
MECH. ROOM
PERSON ST.
South Elevation
MARTIN ST.
West Elevation
EXHIBITION SPACE
LIBRARY
Soffit Detail
LOBBY
COFFEE
FORWARD JUSTICE LEGAL LIBRARY
MECH. ROOM
Ground Detail
EXHIBITION SPACE
LIBRARY
LOBBY
COFFEE
FORWARD JUSTICE LEGAL LIBRARY
MECH. ROOM
Exterior View
EXHIBITION SPACE
LIBRARY
LOBBY
COFFEE
FORWARD JUSTICE LEGAL LIBRARY
MECH. ROOM
Thank you!