Situated on the site of a historic coal miner’s strike and massacre in Ludlow CO, this project explored our unique temporal and spatial relationship to both past and present – a time between the familiar and the unknown where transformation can occur.
ARTIFACT: THE TURNING POINT
During the site research phase of the project, an artifact was created as an interpretation of the historic events that occurred at Ludlow. Emphasis was placed on the intersection of various elements that converged on the site; the turbulent events that occurred during the coal miner’s strike, represented as a scarring of the natural landscape, were seen as a turning point for labor conditions within the US.
LIMINAL SPACE
Programmatic requirements include a café, meeting space, artist residences and a small gallery space meant to foster engagement and conversation between local residents, visitors and passersby. Informed by the topography and an arroyo located on the site, the circulation offers direct and meandering paths that allow for private introspection, crossing of paths, and direct encounters with the surrounding landscape.
Elongated thresholds and an intentional lack of predetermined routes allow for an understanding of what happens after the historical events take place but before change occurs, after we arrive at this place but before we are pulled into the dialogue, and after the unconscious thought but before the act of artistic expression.
site plan
site render
plan - entrance
entrance exterior render
courtyard render
plan - courtyard
plan - gallery
gallery render
meeting space exterior render
