The Boone Room is a multi-stage project envisioned by SLO Architecture to unlock and share the architectural and urban strength rooted in Bronx Street Art. Unfolding in space and time, The Boone Room carries forward, communicates, and amplifies the freewheeling spirit of a collaborative street-art form known as the "Meeting of Styles," invented by Hip Hop Graffiti artists and encouraged by local property owners to adorn blocks of dead blank industrial walls along Boone Avenue in the South Bronx. Current development of the Compass Apartments, the largest single neighborhood residential rezoning in the borough since Co-op City, calls for the wholesale demolition of Boone Avenue and its art this summer.

 

Buoyed by the vision of graffiti artists and the solidarity of local high schoolers and adults reclaiming the art as shared heritage, The Boone Room responds with a tri-partite project: first by documenting Boone Avenue for interactive engagement on the web, then by translating, recombining, and transforming elements of the art to nearby outdoor spaces leading to the simultaneous creation of several parallel "Boone Rooms," virtual and real.