The York Street Challenge, a design competition in Lexington, KY was organized by the North Limestone Community Development Corporation (NoLi CDC) as part of the LuigART Maker Spaces initiative which received an implementation grant in 2013 from ArtPlace America. The competition invited architects to generate designs that would allow the NoLi CDC to repurpose nearly forty contiguous ‘shotgun’ styled homes from the turn of the 20th century into affordable and highly flexible live-work spaces for makers and their families.
Our winning entry for this competition sought to preserve the memory of the original homes while creating a design based on what we call an ‘open source format’ – a single plan that can be customized for each maker while fostering social and creative collaboration within the LuigART community.