Intersection

In designing the Contra Costa County Community Commons, a prototypical construct was first developed and positioned as the locus of design considerations. A series of small scale, indoor and outdoor community based programs aggregate through the language of room-to-room relation, articulating an organizational attitude of solid and void relationships that result from the intersection of 4 identical square-shaped forms, which are oriented according to existing site conditions. From these forms, major lines of continuity are offset and a grid system is extracted to inform primary solids and voids. On the exterior, a surface grid system derived from major points of solids and voids runs counter to the square forms, which is used to inform small scale windows and doors.