Research Log: Adaptive Reuse
The Church
Location: 48 Madison St.
Sag Harbor, NY 11963
https://www.aia.org/articles/6545008-history-meets-modern-at-church-turned-cent
thechurchsagharbor.org
History:
The Church was an Adaptive Reuse and Restoration project, taking a Methodist Church built in 1832 and transformed it into a hub for the community of Sag Harbor, New York, and for the arts. The project was produced by the founders Eric Fischl and April Gornik who purchased the building in 2017.
They brought in Architect Lee Skolnik, FAIA, of Skolnick Architecture and Design who was introduced to this 12,000 sqft building that was entirly gutted, and as part of the design planned to perserve as much of the old building as possible, keeping the features open to see that patina and aging of the building.
This design focused on the “bones” of the once Methodist Church while still adding some clean and modern elements. They used reclaimed woods and other repurposed materials in the rennovation.
The Church now has a glass elevator, new designs on the once stained glass windows that were removed be the congregation, now the windows hold the images of deceades Sag Harbor Luminaries, A mezzanine was put in that hold a library full of donated books of all kinds of creativity. Adaptable work spaces on the ground floor and a multi-use garden with an amphitheatrical design.
Similarities:
My capstone project is similar to The Church in a way, I am focusing on Adaptive Reuse of a building where the overall use of the space in some regard is for the arts. As my project pretains to creating in part an art studio for 16-17 year old students who are within the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. The creation of a space that is focused on working ones creativity in a positive light.
Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios
Location: 3600 Hayden Ave,
Culver City, CA 90232
https://www.aia.org/showcases/6498442-margo-leavin-graduate-art-studios-ucla
https://www.art.ucla.edu/margo-leavin-graduate-art-studios/
Project:
Project:
The UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios is a much larger scaled adaptive reuse project. With the reuse portion coming from a once 21,200 sqft warehouse, along with an add on to the building with 26,800 sqft, totaling 48,000 sqft.
The former warehouse, once a factory was repurposed into graduate art studios for the neighborhood, the addition including work yards, a garden, galleries, and an artist-in-residence loft.
The university cared a lot about the combination of old and new, where reusing a large building made a lot of sense thanks to the location to the program. There was much importance put on top of the reuse of the building that led to the innovated approach of the project to integrate sustainability, enevitablly leading to the 48,000 sqft LEED Gold-certified structure.
As many aspects had to be upgraded due to the original structures lack of access to modern needs, the project contained all sorts of expansions to make the space a highly functional building for use.
There are a multitude of purposes for the large campus building. Containing: studio space, exibition spaces with shoot rooms and galleries, a digital lab, sculpture yard and wood shop, ceramics yard and lad, all sorts of tech equipment to borrow for production, projectors, and cameras, and overall many events to for students and users to present their work to larger audiences.
Similarities:
While my project is practically minuscular in comparison to the UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios, the purposes are still quite similar. To house a space for students to create work, and show it off through galleries, having access to equipment that may in other ways be hard to come by on their own, and simply having room to be creative and harness their own individual development.
