Tibetan Community Cultural Center

2005  Burlington, VT
Community Center
Principal: Michael Wisniewski        

Representatives of the local Tibetan community approached us to assist them in designing a community center.  They did not have a  site but they hoped we could design enough to be used for fund raising.  They wanted it to reference traditional forms.

Our design assumes a traditional street with possible parking on side or rear.  The main meeting room faces the street with a service bar and entry behind.  The building  is symetrical with classical proportions and Tibetan motifs but sided with cedar shingles to create a more skinlike form rather than masonry mass.  The rear service bar is built with fibercement panels.