AxD Spaces
our studio and art gallery
We designed refined surfaces in the gallery to contrast with the raw, exposed structure of the studio – a distinction that enables a natural coexistence between gallery and studio without doors. A short link, housing the owner’s wooden measuring instrument collection, bridges the two realms. Service elements (i.e. restroom and tenant stair) are clad in wood and treated as abstract objects ‘carved’ out of the gallery. The wood cladding pattern, inspired by work of artists Ellsworth Kelly and Sean Scully, limited material waste of the Douglas fir to under 2%. Adjoining the studio an empty adjacent lot was transformed into a lunch/meeting garden.