The integration of art and play into a community park has the capacity to promote enormous amounts of social interaction, community involvement, and social change. As a cultural tool, art can involve, challenge, astound, and inspire people into action and innovation. 

The design for the Arts Bridge Community Centre responds to these opportunities, using art as a catalyst to unify, not only the physical terrain separated by the Allen Expressway, but also the social terrain of separated communities, under a common space for the appreciation, creation, and performance of art. 

The program is divided into two offset buildings situated on each side of the Allen Expressway, dedicated to complementary programmatic functions; one for the creation of art and one for it's discovery. The project establishes connections, both physically, as witnessed in the elevated pedestrian bridge, and visually between the interior and exterior spaces of the park, both adjacent to the building and on each side of the Allen.

The continuous and unifying pedestrian walkway acts as the armature of the design and its placement within each building allows the user to walk around, and in some cases, even through the various spaces to view and engage the activities occurring within. This creates a theatrical and ever changing procession that reinforces the engagement of the building users with the building activity, either physically or visually. The open plan structure allows for the inclusion of movable partition walls encouraging each program to also adapt and transform based on the various use and ever changing needs of the user. The material selection, with a play of tactile, smooth, opaque, or transparent surfaces emphasize the initial design intent, as the materials appear to slide into one another, evident in the shifting truss or glazed planes and sliding partition walls. Materials are then repeated in the interior, further highlighting the integration of the interior and exterior park space. 

In collaboration with A. Mehanovic.