Syracuse Arts Incubator

Ideas of form, spatial agency, facade, and materiality culminated in the production of this work as a proposition for an art studio and gallery in downtown Syracuse, New York.

In this design, there was an interrogation of dichotomies of irregular vs. regular, including a central, rotated archive around which studio and gallery space are separated. Circulation occurs through this volume, forcing the visitor to interact with the normally hidden archive in a profound way.

The facade revolves around ideas of solid vs. void, utilizing a patterning derived from radial symmetries. Solid and void are then filled dependent upon program, with the more private and light-sensitive gallery receiving less light and the more public and light-dependent studio receiving more light.