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      This project was part of a design competition called Design Showdown. The requirements for this project were to redesign a hidden away place in Boston and make it approachable as well a focusing on a way to bring light to a specific problem.     

     The café Metamorphosis was made to focus on the problem of youth gang violence and involvement in Boston. The Cafe will also be involved with the Boston Reentry Initiative who is partners with Youth Options Unlimited a program that works with ages 16-24 who are court-involved or gang-affiliated to provide jobs and a safe place for them. The space for Metamorphosis on the ground level will have a cleansing juice café and on the lower level there will be a yoga studio; that the youth from these programs can work at. The yoga studio will have daily activities like yoga classes and meditation classes that customers as well as workers can attend. The decision to have a cleansing juice café and a yoga studio has to do with the similarities of the process that a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly, just like the reason why people go to yoga or juice cleansing; to become someone new.

     The concept for Metamorphosis will be focusing on a butterfly. The design for all of the spaces will include the focus on the process that it goes through from caterpillar to butterfly. There will be different patterns and colors just like the patterns and multitude of colors on the wings. Textures will also come into play to not only have visual patterns but textural patterns as well.