TheSHELL

A place to experience immersive art, environmental education, and community engagement

K-12 STEAM education
Immersive digital art experiences
Conference and venue rental
Experiential digital performance stage
Fabrication

Site plan for future development includes TheSHELL immersive venue, shaded eating/learning area, education and fabrication spaces, and a community garden.
Shipping containers are repurposed into storage for sculpture materials, restrooms, and a building providing office, gallery, and retail space, with an artist studio and viewing deck above.

TheSHELL@ArtPORT is an extraordinary educational and civic center for the Los Angeles waterfront including:
An iconic monument containing immersive community space, covered with solar panels evoking ship sails and a wind turbine atop the mast generating energy for the digital screens, exemplifying environmental technology.
Repurposed shipping containers converted into an environmental arts and education center.
Maker spaces using materials commonly found at the PORT, offering opportunities to fabricate large scale sculptures plus 3D arts education for K-12 students.
A community garden with colorful, native plants.
A neighborhood gathering place with resources in case of emergency.
A cultural gateway for residents and visitors to the Port of Los Angeles.

Bridge to shaded education and entertainment area, with shipping containers repurposed into gallery, office, studio, library, ArtPORT viewing deck

A place where the creative economy meets the blue economy fostering a community of artists and offering the community arts education, fabrication & places to gather!

*Interior images of TheSHELL showcase Refik Anadol’s Bosphorus, a data sculpture inspired by high frequency radar data collections of Marmara Sea in 30 minute intervals over 30 days. The original poetic experience was exhibited on a 12x3 meters long LED media wall in Istanbul, Turkey from December 2018 – January 2019.

This venue will be available to rent for events including forums, weddings, birthdays, etc.

A community urban garden will be designed for the open space adjacent to 21st Street based on the Neighborhood Resource Garden (NRG) program and examples including Lubeck, Germany