Not a White Cube Part 1 Project 2025 Adam El Kilany Bath Spa University Bath UK Not a White Cube is an art space for those never invited in. It is a shelter for makers, a scaffold for memory, and a refusal to disappear.Built within Glastonbury’s Zig Zag Building— once a Bauhaus-inspired factory, now threatened by cultural erasure, the project reclaims a community without uprooting it. Where others see vacancy, it sees potential. It stitches into the existing, not to restore or preserve, but to adapt — to make space for those at risk of being displaced.This is not a neutral gallery. It rejects the sterile white cube and instead grows as a parasitic structure: light, low-carbon, and made of fragments left behind. Reclaimed materials — used in the irregular sizes and forms they arrived in — are creatively reassembled to shape raw, flexible spaces: studios, workshops, and performance zones that evolve with their users.It is a home for mess, for noise, for shared authorship. A form that follows flow, not function. It asks what happens when architecture stays put, when it protects rather than replaces, when it works with what’s already there.It is not a white cube, because art never belonged in one to begin with. Tutor(s) Toby Smith