Articulture is a arts education group in Minneapolis with plans to expand. The program calls for two components: education and gallery. With that in mind, I developed a design that maintained this separation: as Articulture recognizes that the process of art and display do not necessarily benefit arts education. The driving design idea was that of the skin. Daylight, enclosure, privacy, scale are all components to consider when designing classrooms. The building is set into an urban area and I felt that there was a an inherent responsibility to the street as well as the privacy needed for focused classrooms. The skin, a perforated brick screen, mediates this experience. During the day, the screen reflects light into the space and provides views and at night, the lit spaces within project an ever changing light experience for the street.
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