Market Street Art House
Market Street Art House serves as a downtown SLC community resource for film making, viewing, and archiving; as well as, a gallery for displaying cinema-related exhibitions.
MSAH was designed as an inviting, community resource for independent film making. We were provided programming requirements and a site. The facility needed to provide space for teaching, workshopping, viewing, archiving, and exhibiting film work; as well as, a cafe, a reception, and an office. The site was a small lot of land on the corner of West Temple and Market Street in downtown Salt Lake City, UT.
The design.
Due to the programming needs and the site, it was clear to me the building needed to engage the highly trafficked southwest corner, while also utilizing the circulation space as a barrier for more intimate settings. The varying program required extensive standards research in order to harmoniously fit each element into the building.
The main functions are stacked from the basement to the second floor in order of their natural lighting requirement. The theater is house in the basement, the gallery is on the main level, and the classroom, archive, and office are on the top floor.
In order to strike a balance between natural lighting, passive solar heat gain, and private reduced light settings, I utilized a building envelope technique to transform a flat aluminum panel to a protruding fin (depicted below). This enabled a transition from dark, private space to well lit, yet summer shaded spaces.
