Live Make Industrial Arts Center

Cincinnati, Ohio | 2012 | 47,000 sf | Competition

The proposal envisions that the Live Make Industrial Arts Center be a catalyst for urban renewal and a prototype for how new techniques will allow manufacturing to occur in the communities that will ultimately benefit from the goods produced. The LMIAC will help stitch disparate neighbourhoods together, support living and making under one roof and encourage new ways of manufacturing and distribution in order to help reinvigorate the Brewery District.

The site for the LMIAC, in the Brewery District, is nestled between the two largest employment areas in Cincinnati, the Central Business District and the Uptown area. The location provides enormous potential for the Brewery District to become the connective tissue between these areas. The design proposes preserving the natural landscape of the site and incorporating a park that would help to connect these areas.

With new manufacturing techniques, and changing consumer demands, the way products are designed, manufactured, distributed and sold can be reinvented. The advent of 3D printing, and its ability to print on-demand, allows the creation of goods to happen locally since the files for the products can be sent digitally and the actual product printed locally.