• Location: Old Town, Chicago IL

• Class: Architectural Studio 10

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The Old Town Digital Arts Center, located at the intersection of Blackhawk St. and Hudson Ave. will serve as a community center for the education of film and the digital arts. It will serve as a venue for the practice, experimentation, and exhibition of digital art for post-graduate students and industry professionals.

The Center can be broken down into five main components: the residential apartment buildings, media production center, education and gallery spaces, event spaces, and the screen room. The design of the center is focused on highlighting the floating red element which is the screen room for the facility. It is the focal point of the Center and the community. Due to the formal organization of the spaces, a majority of the programmatic elements are visually or physically connected back to the red theater box. The color red was chosen as a way to relate to the community of Old Town in which the red brick is the main building material and reminiscent of the CPS school that used to occupy the site.