"a reading nook"

The creation of safe education spaces for the young is a challenging design project to account for entirely. On the one hand, you need a degree of openness, visibility, and the capability to teach, while on the contrary, you want to provide privacy and places which can be "claimed" as their own. Read 718 addresses this problem by designing a 'habitable bookshelf' with a built-in reading nook and informal seating platform for group activities and providing some form of spatial delineation. The bookcase frames the connection to the floor below and functions to join the two spaces and ensure continuity as one progresses down and out into the backyard from the street level above.

Read 718 is a not-for-profit tutoring center for middle school and young teen students.

READ 718

Typology/Category: Built. Commercial, Not-for-Profit

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Year: 2015

Status: Complete

Size: 1800 sqf

Client: Undisclosed

Design Team: Nathan Minett, Mercedes Cuvi

Collaborotors: None

( Project executed while at OPerA Studio Architecture as Project Architect. )