"a reading nook"
The creation of safe education spaces for the young is a challenging design project to account for entirely. On the one hand, you need a degree of openness, visibility, and the capability to teach, while on the contrary, you want to provide privacy and places which can be "claimed" as their own. Read 718 addresses this problem by designing a 'habitable bookshelf' with a built-in reading nook and informal seating platform for group activities and providing some form of spatial delineation. The bookcase frames the connection to the floor below and functions to join the two spaces and ensure continuity as one progresses down and out into the backyard from the street level above.
Read 718 is a not-for-profit tutoring center for middle school and young teen students.
Project Name: Read 718
Typology/Category: Built. Commercial, Not-for-Profit
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Year: 2015
Status: Complete
Size: 1800 sqf
Client: Undisclosed
Collaborotors: None at this time
Design Team: Nathan Minett, Mercedes Cuvi
Project executed while at OPerA Studio Architecture as Project Architect.