“Service,” as in an act of helping or supplying; to repair or maintain; to provide a public need; a meeting for worship, a place to refuel

Protective: designed or intended to protect something or someone from harm.

Style: the general way in which [it] is done or presented, which often shows the attitudes of the people involved.

"The Black aesthetic considers design aspects specific to heritage, culture, experience, and the making of individual and collective identities removed from stereotypical trope connotations of color, texture, and symbolism. It is an experiential design using creative multispatial analysis of sustainability, universal-ity, and socialization to create home, agency, and a social hierarchy within the African American domain. It is the curating of space for respite, enjoyment, contemplation, and liberation. It is a space to engage in social justice deplete from surveillance, allowing one to let down the masks of double consciousness to be his or her authentic self. (Carmichael 187)