The CREATE Center for Women

For my project, I designed a high-rise community for up-and-coming professional young woman.

The C.R.E.A.T.E. Center for Women

stands for:

Community for Representing Empowered, Artisitic, and Talented Entrepreneuers

The purpose of this Center will be to not only house young professional women in metropolitan areas, but to create a close network of friends, business contacts, and personal services that will encourage the growth of women in their early twenties to mid thirties. With career services, self-awareness and personal growth classes, and other specific programs for the tenants, the women that live in the CREATE Center have a unique opportunity to empower themselves through working and living with other talented women.

My design aesthetic came from ads I found in my favorite magazine, NYLON. When I found the girl in the box, I thought that it was interesting that you couldn't see what her body looked like. To me, she represented a strong, well built woman, who wasn't being judged by her body. In her hand, I placed a early 1900s looking woman, who is holding the sign to the building which says
"Break out of the pattern." I added more magazine pictures of a town in the foreground of the picture. I think that the CREATE Center sitting up so high on the hill also represents the idea that these women are in control of where they are living. They are overseeing what is going on within the town.

The pictures on the building represent the women inside. Each square has a woman enjoying her favorite activities, whether reading, being at the beach, or having a drink with friends; the pictures represent, happy, well respected women of the community.