Client NHTI - Concord's Community College [School Project]
Instructor Dr. Liaquat Khan
Location Concord, NH
Program Community Center
Size 16,650 ft²
The sharing space is a communal building designed to hold assembly of up to 250 people. Designed around the foundational principal of bringing everyone together, the building flows is a unique way to uphold these values.
When I was designing this, I was trying to fulfill two seemingly conflicting goals: creating a secular space for community gathering, and also designing a space that could be a religious space at the same time. This was due to expectations of my professor, and ideological goals of my own. Though, in thinking through the programmatic similarities of a community center and church, these programs actually are not so conflicting. With a primary focus on a large auditorium for possible performances, gatherings, or events, and having a nursery in the bottom level, this building blurs the line between a community center and what most might expect of a church.
Part of the class was also navigating the sloped landscape, which necessitated entrances of multiple levels when also factoring in parking requirements.
