레고 디자이너, Sean Kenney를 위한 스튜디오 리노베이션 프로젝트의 핵심은 디자이너의 작업의 특성을 투영한 플렉서블 스페이스 창출에 있다. -낡고 오래된(빗물이 새는 지붕, 갈라진 콘크리트 바닥) 기존 차고는 배관을 비롯한 가스, 전기시설 마저 없는 무공간.- 새롭게 디자인된 스튜디오는 작업의 특성을 고려한 오픈스페이스 구축으로, 유연한(플렉서블리티) 작업환경 제공 및 데스크 포트, 라운지, 주방시설과 같은 지원시설을 함께 제공한다. 여기에 별도의 스톱모션 애니메이션 부스와 우드삽공간이 추가된다.
reviewed by SJ,오사
Sean Kenney, a “professional kid” who uses LEGO pieces to design and create sculptures, has moved into a newly renovated art studio in Brooklyn. studioMET Architects have taken what was originally an old parking garage, and have transformed it into a bright white 4,000 square foot art studio.
“Most working art studios in New York are low-budget affairs, ironically, with little to no sense of visual style,” said Kenney. “Now here I am in a gleaming, beautiful new 4,000 square foot facility. I couldn’t be happier.”
The brick shell space is a pre-Lincoln era carriage house that was most recently a parking garage. There was no plumbing, gas or electricity, had a leaky roof and a lumpy old concrete floor.
Working with Florence Tang, Assoc. AIA, from studioMET Architects in Houston, Kenney’s studio was transformed into an open and bright modern space where he and his team of assistants design, build, crate and ship colorful LEGO brick sculptures and portraits.
“It was an exciting and great collaboration. I knew immediately that the space needed to reflect the exuberance, colorfulness and unpredictability of Sean’s work,” Tang said.
The collaborative work floor space needed flexibility to transform from one hour to the next; one month to the next, as the nature of the work is custom commissions varying from a stately Greco-Roman figure to an insect dangling from the ceiling to a custom portrait for a celebrity mom. The front of the space with a desk pod, a lounge and kitchenette had to be dexterous so as to transform into a loading dock with a few minutes notice.
A video/stop animation studio and woodshop, as well as a crate storage room for the sculptures, are also included in the space’s program. Adhering to the client’s humble project budget of less than $250,000 for the 4,000 sq ft space, careful decisions were made to prioritize the budget, design and construction to achieve move-in in three months.
from contemporist