Weaver’s Workshop
This weaver’s workshop is housed within a century-old industrial building in Long Island City. Our design was inspired by the artist’s working process and pattern drawings. Like the warp and weft of weaving patterns, we organized the interior along east-west and north-south axes of movement.
The activities of the artist’s work had seemingly conflicting attributes: she required loud spaces for weaving and industrial steam machines and quiet spaces for fabric dyeing and her yarn temple. In considering how the spaces for her processes could coexist within close proximity, we were inspired by artist El Lissitsky’s Proun Rooms, which bend two-dimensional forms around three-dimensional rooms to expand or contract our perception of that space.
We organized the workshop to form both separation between activities, especially quiet and loud, and strategic moments of connection. Through material assemblies of foil skins, boiled felt, and perforated carbon, we created EMF and sound shields between spaces. Through a series of Harmon doors and surface materials that wrap from the wall in one room to the reverse side of the wall in the next, we created a perceived continuity.
The activities of the artist’s work had seemingly conflicting attributes: she required loud spaces for weaving and industrial steam machines and quiet spaces for fabric dyeing and her yarn temple. In considering how the spaces for her processes could coexist within close proximity, we were inspired by artist El Lissitsky’s Proun Rooms, which bend two-dimensional forms around three-dimensional rooms to expand or contract our perception of that space.
We organized the workshop to form both separation between activities, especially quiet and loud, and strategic moments of connection. Through material assemblies of foil skins, boiled felt, and perforated carbon, we created EMF and sound shields between spaces. Through a series of Harmon doors and surface materials that wrap from the wall in one room to the reverse side of the wall in the next, we created a perceived continuity.
Location: New York, NY
Status: Completed
Scale: 7000 sq. ft.