SKETCH, a non-profit organization, needed a design that reflects their identity and vision of transforming the lives of homeless and at-risk youth through community arts. This new design takes the shape of a prism as a symbol of colors and light (reflecting SKETCH’s logo) and subtracts that shape from the center of the building mass to create a 3-4 storey atrium space which creates a sense of community. Each floor consists of an arts-related activity surrounding the void to connect the programmes vertically to improve human interaction. The left-over prism shape is inserted on the front façade as an angled window and skylight.
