BreakGround Studio
700 sf
temporary studio
Denver, CO
new, temporary construction
(concept)
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This concept for a temporary micro-studio re-envisions the traditional construction management trailer by considering if the building was slightly more permanent, though still removable. This being differentiated from movable, mobile, and transportable. The studio would occupy a prominent, though vacant lot, seeking to activate the property in terms of use, public perception and public service.
The project also considers 'pop-up' architecture as a powerful branding tool/experimental laboratory and seeks to develop the elevations of the building as a billboard/testing platform for the design work within. Building as Billboard.
The space consists of three zones. In the center and most public space, an operational breezeway, the floor of which doubles as a thermal mass is open to everyone. Here exhibits devoted to helping people re-envision their own spaces and neighborhoods would cycle several times a year. Adjacent to the gallery on either side are two 'wings, one devoted to the kitchen/bath and the other a 'dry' space intended for the studio. The entire structure rests on/tied to 3 large steel beams, which in turn are anchored to precast concrete highway dividers buried on the site as a temporary foundation.
