The Reid house

A Collaborative Design

In cooperation with the Sarasota African American Cultural Coalition (SAACC), the Ringling College of Art and Design INDEX (ELEC 350) class goal was to conceptualize Leonard Reid’s house as a future home of an “historical and cultural center” in Newtown. The center would include historical components as well as a permanent art installation and exhibition space. Until the larger center is fully realized on the site, its temporary home will be the historic Leonard Reid house, moved from the Rosemary District to the southwest corner of North Orange Ave. and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Sarasota.

The project objective for the Ringling student team, led by two members of the Ringling faculty specializing in entertainment design and creative writing, was to conceptualize a design for the Reid House in two phases. The original structure, built by Leonard Reid, a pioneering African American resident of Sarasota, would ultimately house a meaningful guest experience space to tell the Reid family story and, by extension, highlight the local African American experience.

In this project, I took part in designing the spatial layout and flow of Phase 1. Additionally, during this project in a small team, I visited the home to take site measurements. This later assisted me in creating the 3D Masterfile of the home exactly to-scale. I assisted my team with creative design, took part in material selection, lit the space, and captured the final renderings. You can find my work below, located on pages 8-19.

Model designed and rendered in SketchUp and Enscape.