2023 - Core Studio
Aniket Shahane, Critic
Located on the site of the Fair Haven Library, this project centers around intensifying the concept of interchange—an activity that is already deeply embedded within our site; be it in the form of borrowing and returning books, in the elaborate choreographies of hundreds of students arriving and departing from the site every school day, in the criss-crossing of city commuter buses that stop and connect the adjacent blocks, or in the schedules of the employees who operate the transit infrastructures others inhabit.
By grafting language classrooms, market areas, indoor/outdoor performance spaces, in addition to a multi-modal transit interchange onto the existing library structure, the project serves all the people who engage with transit as part of their daily routines. For them, it creates a space that brings order to the chaotic theater of pickups and drop-offs. Here, the Interchange complements the existing library program, acting as a place to relax, network, and learn within their daily commutes; a place to have a book, a coffee, a conversation with someone new.