CoARTS

Modern cafe with brick walls, minimal seating, art on the walls, and people sitting and walking.
  • A modern indoor courtyard with brick flooring, large windows, trees, and people walking and seated.
    CoARTS
  • Black cube-shaped building with circular window patterns, set at a street intersection.
    CoARTS
  • Architectural floor plan on the left and a brick courtyard with trees on the right.
    CoARTS
  • Open, modern interior with curved walls, terracotta flooring, tables, chairs, and a central atrium.
    CoARTS
  • Floor plan with curved sections on the left; modern wooden interior with plants on the right.
    CoARTS
  • Brick-walled room with arched windows, seating, plants, and people interacting.
    CoARTS
  • Spacious art studio with large windows, tables, stools, and scattered supplies.
    CoARTS
  • Architectural workspace with large arched windows, and a detailed pink wall section diagram.
    CoARTS
  • Chloe Martinez
    Chloe Martinez
  • Teia Kilian
    Teia Kilian

Team:

 Teia Kilian and Chloe Martinez 

ARCH 410 / Spring 2024

CoARTS, a housing addition to the existing Bennett Martin Public Library, is located in the heart of downtown Lincoln, Nebraska. The housing scheme focuses on user groups in need of additional support and resources. Through the lens of art therapy, CoARTS introduces co-housing modules into non-traditional collaborative art spaces. 
 
The architecture works around the idea of the “vaguely familiar,” utilizing familiar elements and materials to foster feelings of safety. Through slight manipulation, they may also evoke curiosity and spark inspiration. The social programs’ articulation of vertical space creates pockets of privacy and allows the architecture to slowly reveal itself. Social and private spaces are carefully choreographed through materiality, circulation, and sequence to create a comforting, welcoming, and creative environment.