LUBBOCK CULTURAL CENTER

Spring 2010

Prof. Benjamin Shacklette

Comprehensive  studio

Graduate school

Texas Tech University

Drawing from the city’s cultural background along with the uniqueness of the site topography, a concept was derived. Lubbock Cultural Center, was to showcase the three main cultures that make up the history of the city. Each of these being represented with a unique material along a series of facades. They were meant to be revealed to the public as one walked along a main axis that split the building complex into two linear areas. 

The site analysis and the programmatic requirements helped generate strategies that would allow for an interesting use of the outdoor space.  The steep topography was meant to be exaggerated and dramatized to generate an inventive and contrasting form to that of the leveled landscape of the city.  The skin studies heavily explored answering the orientation deficits of having a North to South orientation. By utilizing perforated metal panels to the West of the larger mass and limiting the glazing and openings to the East it would try to resolve the large amount of surface area facing these directions.