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AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE: NEW YORK BRONX MUSEUM ARTISTS UNITED TRESPASERVICE POINT WORLD ARCHITECTS HUMAN SCALE ARAGON GENSLER
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

HB:BX is intended to be an incubator for the arts, a public facility that fosters the development of experimental, innovative art forms and strengthens the positive effects that the arts have on community development. These objectives are accomplished by creating a facility with three major components.

Art Creation Facility (Component 1)

Entrants should provide resources and spaces for the creation and production of art. While programming their intervention, entrants are challenged to consider that contemporary art trends are multidisciplinary and cross traditional artistic boundaries. Thus, the Art Creation Facility should include studios, workshops, fabrication laboratories, and practice spaces for a wide variety of visual, performing, musical, and experiential arts. This facility should allow local artists to access facilities on an as needed basis.

Career Development Center (Component 2)

Entrants should focus on the career development of all artists (from aspiring to established) through services such as instruction, networking, legal consulting, licensing, and promoting. This is to be housed in spaces including classrooms, administrative offices, research centers, and a library. These spaces are also to be used for community outreach and arts education.

Art Promotion Facility (Component 3)

Entrants should create spaces for the artist community to display, perform, and showcase their work. The idea should explore architecture’s relationship with the varied and unconventional means and mediums in which contemporary art is exhibited and experienced. Another critical element is that the project be sensitive to and engage the local community by providing a facility for the ethnically diverse residents to gather and express their unique cultural and artistic heritage. These open public spaces should accommodate the community’s need for leisure, recreation, and gathering.

In addition to fulfilling the objectives, entrants should also address the following questions: