Storybooth Crosstown
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Architecture
Interior Design -
Adaptive Reuse
Low Maintenance Materials
Reclaimed Building Materials -
Completed October 2013
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Memphis, Tennessee
The project design responds to program and context with three tactics: create a booth within the flea market that takes advantage of the existing flea market’s circulation, infrastructure, and storefront; create a ‘secret’ workshop area with flexible learning spaces and a heightened sense of entry; and connect the workshop space to the alley.
Creating a flexible space in an existing inner-city flea market for an after-school arts initiative program, and an office/retail component for students to sell their work.
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The project’s context included the existing flea market with a storefront, an alley adjacent to the market, and a former distribution warehouse for Sears located across the street from the market. The flea market booth is marked by a square office volume placed along the flea market storefront, and is lined with an assemblage of reclaimed and painted shelves from the Sears Warehouse. A section of the shelving in the booth is a hidden door leading to the workshop beyond. Inside the workshop, three figures made from assembling more reclaimed shelves organize and scale the space. The shelving figures are treated as large pieces of furniture, providing integrated work surfaces, storage, lighting, and display. A series of tall openings following the rhythm of the shelving figures let light, views and circulation into the workshop space from the alley.
