KRISTEN A. FOX

The design challenge for this project was to create a new post office for a college town.  I not only wanted to design a much needed post office for the local community, but I also wanted to focus on developing a new paradigm about what community spaces are and how we use them to connect to our neighbors.  The post office includes public meeting rooms and a coffee shop.

My intent was to create intersecting volumes of space that corresponded to specific programmatic uses. These distinct volumes of space+program are created by the manipulation of floor and ceiling heights and the placement of piers to define space. The circulation space became simultaneously a uniting and a dividing element from one program to the next: a threshold from post office areas to gathering areas, coffee shop areas to community rooms.