Studio in SOHO

This studio is located on the ground floor of an 1868 brick building in one of Soho’s oldest artist-founded cooperatives comprised of 3 buildings surrounding 2 common courtyards. The project keeps the living area as open as possible while organizing the bedroom, entrance hall, bathroom, and sleeping mezzanine behind a floor-to-ceiling yellow shelve structure, equipped with a moveable ladder. The openings, varied depths of backing, transparencies and many clerestory windows transform this central bookcase into a complex 3-dimensional structure continuously visually or physically traversed.

The stainless-steel kitchen countertop and entrance door, the terrazzo tiles in the bathroom, the RAL 1012 powder-coated steel, visible ductwork, push-button light switches and steel-profile clerestory windows with wire glass infill, avoid the typical residential solutions and give the unit more utilitarian and workshop-like character, reflecting the history of the building.