Program/ Cultural Craft Gallery
Concept/ Material reuse, energy efficiency
Materials/ Wood, metal, glass, light
Location/ Grand Haven MI
News/ Grand Haven Tribune
Completion/ 2010
This new 'eco' friendly gallery was generated by the owner's interest in showing work that tells a story. The art products were created within their localities: mittens shown in the gallery were woven in the same place the sheep were sheered; one of a kind hand bags are sewn by local seamstresses. The new articulation by Hoeksema included extensive use of environmentally 'intelligent' strategies increasing building valuation through reorganization of the linear gallery concept into three metaphors of Nature: Field, Garden, and Grove.
• Energy saving envionment
• Material recycling
• Celebration of restoration
• Natural light maximization
