High-Low Culture
Some may believe that a city is a reflection of its culture, crime and politics. Detroit is a plethora of experiences
from high culture to low culture through living, dining, and entertainment experiences. As the city continues to shrink in size and population the goal of High-Low Culture will be to re-connect all three aspects that define the city back to the people of Detroit. The design of the Museum will meet three goals through its mixed-use program layout with gallery space acting as an architectural beacon of artistic freedom. The mixed use of program will produce a structure that connects that past industrial age of Detroit to the new and contemporary look of what Detroit strives to be in the 21st century. Cuts and voids of space produced around the industrial brick building will form the glass contemporary edge that calls out to passerby’s intriguing and welcoming them to enter. Through a hybridization of brick and glass, positive and negative space will be produced allowing both spaces to be utilized for artistic expression. Program and form will derive from a mix of museum and commercial space that allow each to share views into each other. Residential program will be elevated and stacked upon the mixed space in a manner that allows the residential program to support the artistic program through funding and by allowing the artistic program to support the residents with culture. Detroit is a mixed venue just like the museum promises to be, a place where artist will swarm upon to broach political concerns, cultural questions and freedom of expression. From a city that was once considered the Paris of the west, High-Low culture museum will strive to bring that name back to Detroit for the 21st century as an artistic venue for the world. |
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