Southside Cultural Center

Following South Light, a successful temporary light installation event created with RISD architecture students that brought an incredible turnout of local communities, the event helped draw interest, excitement and generated the needed funding to create a permanent external event space for the local community center in what was a parking lot.

LFB worked with the architects to create a successful design and flexible lighting scheme for the event space and new landscape area. Due to a very restricted budget the lighting design makes use of solar powered landscape lighting to minimise cabling and containment and second hand lighting equipment to provide theatrical lighting for productions. Lighting to the event space serves a dual purpose to create a lantern for the community after dark as well as provide flexible functional lighting for events.

Following its completion, the space has been regularly used by the community for all types of events both by day and night.

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You can read more about the project on Dezeen here and more about the design build project with RISD students here