LIBRARY ST. COLLECTIVE

RENOVATION + ART GALLERY DETROIT, MICHIGAN

TEAM: N. RICH | M. PETERSON | B. HOCHBERG

The Library Street Collective is a partnership between a husband and wife duo and a circulating group of promising, young artists and designers from or practicing in Detroit. LSC has commisioned exhibits, murals, pop-ups, and installations around the city since 2010 as part of the post recession, cultural revival. In an effort to increase visibility of the works of emerging and minority artists as well as house their extensive art collection, Library Street Collective purchased a formerly Black owned church in a suburban area of Detroit. The project will preserve the structure of the original church, re-adapt the existing furniture to the new space, and renovate the interior. The new program is a gallery, installation, concert, and event space as a new permanent outpost for the artist collective. For this ongoing project, I developed multiple site plans and diagrams for presentations and SD packages, and a 1/4” scale physical model for in house use as part of the design process. The section model below highlights the relationship of the existing building and proposed additions. The physical model continuously changed throughout the weeks as the team iterated, and was used for client meetings both in New York and Detroit. It will be on permanent display at the site.