Art Chapel

Curt Bright Author

04/26/2023 Added

45 Plays

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Architecture and interior design students give a much needed make-over of one of Lincoln's oldest church structures.

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[00:00:00.125](bright uplifting music)
[00:00:04.350]One of Lincoln's oldest church structures
[00:00:07.260]gets some uplifting updates and a transformed purpose.
[00:00:11.820]Jason Griffiths and Jeff Days' architecture students,
[00:00:15.210]teamed up with the F Street Church
[00:00:17.370]in Lincoln's south downtown neighborhood
[00:00:20.160]to transform a neglected 19th century church
[00:00:23.700]into a community art hub.
[00:00:26.310]When the renovation is completed,
[00:00:28.050]the Art Chapel will be a safe and inspiring studio space
[00:00:32.190]for adults to take art classes at a low cost
[00:00:35.880]and share their displays with the community.
[00:00:38.610]This project addresses a very real problem,
[00:00:40.830]which is the cases of homelessness,
[00:00:44.910]substance abuse disorder, and poverty
[00:00:47.520]within the south of downtown region.
[00:00:49.560]These are very real social problems,
[00:00:51.660]and we as designers, as educators, and with students
[00:00:55.680]work to find ways in which architecture
[00:00:57.900]can improve on these conditions,
[00:01:00.600]find ways in which it can help.
[00:01:02.490]The Art Chapel is a design/build project
[00:01:05.070]where students work with real clients on a real project.
[00:01:08.670]They created the very first sketches
[00:01:10.890]and will go all the way through to the final construction.
[00:01:14.340]Well, we're doing a lot of significant things
[00:01:15.990]to make it functional for the art programming
[00:01:18.660]that's going to occur here.
[00:01:20.250]One of the most impressive features
[00:01:21.810]is gonna be that half of the front wall of the building
[00:01:24.900]is gonna roll away as a big barn door.
[00:01:27.240]It'll appear as if it's the original wall
[00:01:29.160]and then it'll move away
[00:01:30.300]opening this space to the community,
[00:01:31.830]which is really about communicating
[00:01:34.110]the openness of the facility to the neighborhood
[00:01:36.570]and allowing anybody to come in
[00:01:38.130]and engage with the art programming or show their own work.
[00:01:41.711](machine buzzing)
[00:01:44.220]Students built all the furniture,
[00:01:46.050]fixtures, and components for the project
[00:01:48.420]at Nebraska Innovation Studio.
[00:01:50.790]Working with my classmates
[00:01:51.960]and getting to actually design parts
[00:01:54.000]that will go into an existing building is so cool.
[00:01:56.850]Seeing where it was to where it will be
[00:01:59.820]once we finish this project is awesome.
[00:02:01.920]Seeing our work physically be built
[00:02:03.900]is something that we haven't done before,
[00:02:06.060]so that's why I love this designs/build studio
[00:02:08.850]and it's just been so great to be a part of.
[00:02:11.340]The Art Chapel project
[00:02:12.600]was prolonged by the pandemic, but it is back on track
[00:02:16.110]and set to open for creativity and community building
[00:02:19.320]later this year.

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