Addition Double or Nothing

RISD M.ARCH Core 02 Studio: Constructions

3 Week Time Frame

3,898 sq.ft.

4 N Main St, Providence, RI 02903

Standing at the corner of College Street and North Main Street sits Market House, a three-story, Colonial building that has played a significant role throughout Providence’s history. Despite the building’s outward normalcy, blending in with the many other historic buildings on the street, Market House holds a messy, complex history. Today, Market House is home to RISD classrooms and studios after it was “re-imagined” in the 1930s. The addition to Market House, along with the completion of the RISD Museum directly across the street, intends to redefine this area as the “front door” of RISD’s campus. The placement of the addition in a portion of Market Square, a heavily trafficked area on campus, makes this newly built space easily accessible to students and faculty. The addition serves as an extension of the classroom and home giving students from all departments an inclusive space to exist, which additionally has the ability to be reprogrammed depending on students’ current needs. While this space serves as a place to casually socialize amongst other students between classes, it can also be a place of collaboration and education as students from all departments now have a designated location to interact with one another and a plethora of design projects.