The Commune

Program proposal The commune

c o m m u n i t y AR T S c e n t e r Kristen Bender

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Photos Courtesy of Roxanna

LA FARGE

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OPEN COMPOSITION

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LA FARGE HAD PRIDE IN HIS COMMUNITY AND SURROUNDINGS HE EXPRESSED THIS THROUGH HIS ART MOST OF HIS WORK WAS COMPLETED IN, OR NEAR NEWPORT

COMMUNITY

A group of people living together in one place, especially one practicing common ownership

WHAT HAPPENS IN THE NEWPORT COMMUNITY TODAY?

Business Civic Hospitality Religious Food

TRINITY CHURCH

SITE

CHANNING MEMORIAL CHURCH

Program Map Courtesty of Shivani

WHAT IS MISSING?

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A SENSE OF PLACE and CONNECTION FOR THE COMMUNITY

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COMMUNE

An intentional community of people sharing common interests, property, possessions, resources

“The La Farge Restoration Fund’s Mission - To raise funds to ensure that the church building is sound and to develop a program to ensure that the interior is preserved and accessible to the public as a valued education and arts resource and treasured part of the rich historical and cultural patrimony of old town Newport.�

-Landmark Nomination

LA FARGE

SITE

COMMUNITY

THE COMMUNE

Art Pride

Historic Newport Hotspot + Neighborhood Pride + Program Connection

A group of people Newport residents + La Farge Restoration Fund + Van Beuren Charitable Foudation + Newport Art Museum

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PROGRAM CONCEPT Located in the heart of historic Newport, The Commune is dedicated to encouraging artists, visitors, and residents of the city to create works in a community-based environment, cultivating a creative atmosphere for experimentation and learning.

ART Art Store Gallery Exhibition Residency

BUSINESS Incubator Church Offices

EDUCATION Studio Residency Workshop Library

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PROGRAM The Art Store trades and sells recycled and donated materials within the front parish house space, while also having a large open space for multiple multi-use studio workshop spaces. Within the original church, mass can still be held for those within the congregation on Sundays, allowing for gallery and exhibition space throughout the week or on special gala events.

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KITCHEN

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PROGRAM Residency studio apartments allow artists to produce art, as well as teach the community in their specialty. The Balcony Library holds a shared-book system for the research of art, and art education. The material and book collections specialize in innovative art and technology from the time of La Farge to the present.

SELE X Y Z DOMINICANEN Maastricht, Netherlands M e r kx + G i r o d LI B RARY & B OO K S T ORE

P INACO T ECA

S達o Paulo, Brasil

Paulo Mendes da Rocha S T RUC T URAL B RIDGING SYS T EM

MAPPING ANALYSIS The mapping analysis follows the procession of architectural order in the church, and highlights original La Farge within the space. The La Farge work is projected into the space to form the circulation path and procession for the second proposed structure.

DESIGN PROPOSAL - FIRST FLOOR PLAN The new design proposal for the library structure is made from corten steel and woven metal fabric. Inserting the secondary structure on the second level allows the ground floor to be used as a more open floor plan for gallery and exhibition events, and is a self supporting structure, makng it more of a soft intervention.

DESIGN PROPOSAL - SECOND FLOOR PLAN The circulation path throughout the upper level connects many of the La Farge mapping views to original pieces within the space. It also starts to distinguish the form of the second structural system within the upper balconies.

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LIBRARY ANALYSIS The succession of section diagrams shows a scale of reversibility options for the prefabricated structural system to support the Balcony Library.

LIBRARY ANALYSIS

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LIBRARY PROPOSAL - SECTION The Balcony Library consists of three main parts: the physical materials that you can touch, feel, see, the digital materials which are computer-based, and then the educational materials such as books, journals, and articles on a range of topics from opulescent glass to the most innovative new smart materials such as luminescent textiles.

LIBRARY PROPOSAL - INTERIOR ELEVATION

“I must always remember that its decoration is very rich, and that I have little money to work with. I must, then, take advantage of the way in which this style favors very large plain spaces as connected with very rich ones.

-La Farge

BUDGET + $500,000

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THE COMMUNE