Architect reports on WHY’s design for EPACENTER Youth Arts & Music Center

“At the core of East Palo Alto, wHY’s newest Bay Area project, EPACENTER – a multidisciplinary art, design and music facility – is a space to gather, grow and thrive. Greater than the sum of its parts, the project reflects the desires, needs and goals of the community as architecture—where form, structure and program become the result of an intensive and unique process that engaged the community as equal partners in design. EPACENTER is an act of architectural agency on behalf of the community, where the locals, rather than the funding body, are the clients and the architects act as guides through the space-making process.”

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