LaCrosse, WA Youth, Teen & Senior Center

Crossroads to Posterity is about generations coming together, which happened to be the force behind my concept on this design. These rock homes were once important structures in the town of LaCrosse and once served as homes for some within the community. The homes, old service stations and bunk houses exteriors are covered in Basalt Rock that is straight from the Palouse here in WA. As time has gone the rocks are beginning to fall and crack, needing immense repairs, but will stay on the exterior to preserve their importance. The final product created was a home for both teens and seniors directly located to one another for a connection between the past and future of the town. Behind these homes is a local park with a pond, lots of seating, and fire pits, around this park is a pathway for walking that features basalt rocks within the pavement to continuing connecting past and present. A playground sits next to the homes for children and families, a basketball court is located next to the playground for revenue opportunities with sporting competitions. The service station has become a local gathering event center for LaCrosse and the surrounding communities. The old garage door will stay to show its past functions as well as lead to the main movie room and arcade system. The reception will serve to rental sports equipment located inside the service station. This community based project brought on the opportunity to work with a rural town that really wants it to thrive to be more than it is, while preserving historical structures that mean a lot to them. The implementation of this design could bring forth the chance to expand the LaCrosse community in becoming more than a small railroad and farming town, it is going to turn into a spot that all travelers will want to pull off the highway and come see.

Teen & Senior Center Case Studies

This specific case study was on a Senior Center in Sequim, WA, my hometown. By finding out more about what a senior center does and has to offer to the seniors of the community helped to project outcomes into the finalized Youth, Teen and Senior home. The use of volunteer work in this center gives for the opportunity to bring the younger generations in to come together and learn from the seniors.

A Youth and Teen Center that began in a church and has expanded farther to provide after school supervision and activities in the community. By learning about functions they have to offer helped to know what teens would want in a space that is provided by them. These are seen in the final design for the LaCrosse community.

LaCrosse, WA InfoGraph

An InfoGraph gives for better information to a specific subject. In this case, it was Lacrosse, WA, a small town that thrives to be more successful and bring others to its community to learn about it and explore what it has too offer, which right now is very little. The infograph's gave for more information on what it does have to offer and brought about ways in which we could find out more to create a design that appealed to the community and those surrounding it.