MITCHELL BOBMAN
In Ray Oldenburg’s book, The Great Good Place, he introduces the idea of Third Places – places we meet to eat, drink, and socialize with friends, family, and acquaintances. These community institutions provide vital social and economical epicenters in a digital age of declining social capital.
Hainey3 proposes a coffee shop, small bookstore, and co-working office space on the ground floor. Affordable housing units located on the second level provide equitable living at Haynie’s Corner. Hainey3 will be the third place that Evansville deserves in order to succeed socially, economically, and environmentally. Maintaining existing building stock provides sustainability, and adding an additional floor contributes to urban infill.
The goal of the 1 x ∞ Ideas Competition is to explore the intrinsic differences between designers and how they approach creative challenges. I was asked to create designs for an urban lot in the downtown of Evansville, Indiana at the corner of Adams and 2nd street. This lot is known as Haynie’s Corner and is historically significant and serves an important anchor of the Art District.
"There must be places where individuals may come and go as they please, in which no one is required to play host, and in which we all feel at home and comfortable"
- Ray Oldenburg, 1989
