COMMUNITY MUSIC WORKS
AFTER SCHOOL ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PROGRAM 2022
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, USA | 40.6914ºN, 73.9752ºW
Community Music Works (CMW) is an orchestral afterschool program located in Providence, RI that creates urban community through music education. For this project, we imagined a new site for CMW, between The Walt Whitman Public Library and PS 67 south of Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn. This project centers around the concept of simultaneous listening: to oneself, to others, to the community, and to music. The proposed building consists of 4 visible volumes:
Individual practice rooms for younger students, facing east to the sunrise as their time at CMW is just beginning. (SELF)
Individual practice rooms for older students, oriented west as they contemplate the end of their journey with the program. (SELF)
Space for group practice rests above oriented multi-dimensionally (OTHERS)
In-between is listening space for indoor/outdoor performance, collective gathering (COMMUNITY)
SITE PLAN | 1/32"=1'-0"
FLOOR 02 | 1/8"=1'-0"
FLOOR 01 | 1/8"=1'-0"
FLOOR 00 | 1/8"=1'-0"
TRANSVERSE SECTION | 1/8"=1'-0"
DETAIL SECTIONS OF PRACTICE ROOMS | 1/4"=1'-0"
SOUTH ELEVATION | 1/8"=1'-0"
FROM SOUTH-EAST
FROM WEST
DUSK FROM WEST
INDOOR PERFORMANCE
WEST ELEVATION
DUSK FROM EAST
PROCESS
BUILDING THE STORY
CMW Brooklyn can be accessed from 3 sides, with primary entrances to the north and the south. The community will enter primarily from the south feeling a gentle squeeze as the building pulls them in only to open to the central space. Students access the building directly from the playground, a child running from school to CMW will feel the earth shift beneath their feet as the slaps against the pavement become gentler thuds over grass and dirt, running just to pause.
