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Griot Museum of Black History
The Griot Museum of Black History is planning a transformative renovation to convert its vacant 6,000 sf third floor into an event space. This newly designed multi-purpose room will serve as a hub for community programming, museum events, and rentable gatherings, providing a source of revenue for the museum. The project also introduces new restroom facilities at the rear of the event space, storage, and a new roof terrace on the western side, which offers an outdoor area directly accessible from the event space and provides a required fire stair. Beneath this new terrace on the first floor, the renovation includes much-needed offices and a conference room for the museum's director and staff.
The central concept of the design is creating a cloud of lights that encircles and floats above the event space.
On the interior, this colorful, continuous element integrates various types of lighting to transform the atmosphere from day to night and for different event types. The cloud also continues to the building's exterior, extending the energy of the interior outward, expanding to encircle the stairs, terrace, and offices. This bold presence acts as signage, arousing passersby’s curiosity and drawing visitors into the museum.
Inside, during the day, natural light floods through expansive windows, illuminating the original gymnasium's brickwork and truss ceiling and highlighting the sculptural quality of the cloud as a dramatic visual feature. As day turns into night, the cloud of lights takes on a new dimension. Based on the needs of the Griot, lighting packed within this element will allow it to vary between providing dramatic uplighting to highlight the original trusses, task lighting to accommodate event guests at tables, gallery lighting to highlight artworks displayed between the windows, utility lighting to highlight the room for cleaning and day-to-day activities, and accent lighting to illuminate the geometry of the cloud. This flexibility in the lighting design can accommodate lively performances, intimate gatherings, and everyday functions of the museum, creating a flexible, immersive, and engaging environment for visitors.
Enhancing this effect, the cloud frames a video wall that transforms the front wall of the event space into an animated backdrop for performers or speakers, adding a layer of visual storytelling to the space that relates to The Griot’s central mission. This project’s theatrical approach to lighting blurs the boundaries between architecture and theater, creating a space that is not just a backdrop for audiences to view events but an active environment that invites everyone to participate and share their stories.
The central concept of the design is creating a cloud of lights that encircles and floats above the event space.
On the interior, this colorful, continuous element integrates various types of lighting to transform the atmosphere from day to night and for different event types. The cloud also continues to the building's exterior, extending the energy of the interior outward, expanding to encircle the stairs, terrace, and offices. This bold presence acts as signage, arousing passersby’s curiosity and drawing visitors into the museum.
Inside, during the day, natural light floods through expansive windows, illuminating the original gymnasium's brickwork and truss ceiling and highlighting the sculptural quality of the cloud as a dramatic visual feature. As day turns into night, the cloud of lights takes on a new dimension. Based on the needs of the Griot, lighting packed within this element will allow it to vary between providing dramatic uplighting to highlight the original trusses, task lighting to accommodate event guests at tables, gallery lighting to highlight artworks displayed between the windows, utility lighting to highlight the room for cleaning and day-to-day activities, and accent lighting to illuminate the geometry of the cloud. This flexibility in the lighting design can accommodate lively performances, intimate gatherings, and everyday functions of the museum, creating a flexible, immersive, and engaging environment for visitors.
Enhancing this effect, the cloud frames a video wall that transforms the front wall of the event space into an animated backdrop for performers or speakers, adding a layer of visual storytelling to the space that relates to The Griot’s central mission. This project’s theatrical approach to lighting blurs the boundaries between architecture and theater, creating a space that is not just a backdrop for audiences to view events but an active environment that invites everyone to participate and share their stories.
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