This project proposes the design of a hybrid community center for both elderly adults and children, with the intention of bringing together two groups at the opposite ends of life’s spectrum through the medium of storytelling. Formally inspired by the Morgan Blair painting, Free Stuff / Misc / Etc / Ghosts, the floor plan is composed of the repetition, rotation, and cropping of a single plan figure to generate a richly varied configuration of interior and exterior space. This operation is tracked through the building in the distinctive recurrence of curving, concrete masses, shingled wall planes, and clipped, graphic partitions. The resulting spaces evoke the whimsical familiarity of a "same, same but different" world which mediates the individual and collective needs of the old and young.

Free Stuff / Misc / Etc / Ghosts by Morgan Blair