Volland Gallery
Completed 2015
Project Designer, Daniel Renner
Photos, Mike Sinclair, Daniel Renner
Sketches, Daniel Renner
The Volland Foundation campus, based in the Flint Hills of Kansas, provides artist residencies, exhibitions, and performances, bringing arts programming and meaningful community support to a rural region. The Foundation has become a cultural anchor, fostering connection within the surrounding community while deepening awareness of the area’s unique and endangered landscape.
The Volland Gallery was the first project completed on the campus, transforming a historic masonry building originally constructed as a general store. Rather than reconstructing the original two story interior, the design preserves the full interior volume, creating an unexpected gallery space. A compact stack of kitchen, restrooms, and a loft is inserted within the building shell but pulled away from the masonry walls, allowing the historic structure to remain visually legible.