The vera list center studio

"The VLC Studio is a community center for the neighborhood and for New School students, faculty, and staff who are committed to changing the world through art. With a gallery space, a broadcasting studio, and a reading room with café, it serves as the dynamic city-facing gateway to the creative art-focused research and activist work of The New School and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics." In collaboration with Maya McGlynn for the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School. Without a predetermined location, we were tasked with envisioning a new studio space that could bring together the life and overlap the programmatic relationships between the studio and the reading room, gallery, support structures and its own outward presence from the street.

Early sketch for the studio workspace

A elevation of one of the potential street-level locations on 13th St. 

A parallel projection of a potential layout for a non-ground level space, where the studio would be the first thing people see when they enter. This would spill toward the windows into the reading room and work-spaces, with bathrooms, the gallery, and other support spaces furthest from the windows. 

This rendering depicts the library/reading area divided by bookcases, as well as an archival display & exhibit introduction. The space leads off to a shared working space and studio through translucent partitions that allow visitors to observe work being made without disrupting it.

One of the most important aspects of the reading room is the intersection of people on an everyday basis, open to invite lingering and companionship. 

With an open event & screening space, there is ample room to configure chairs to support many sizes of audiences. 

Here you can envision the elevated stage & seating set-up right before an event.

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