Crown Heights Studio | Brooklyn, NY
An artist in Crown Heights hired ASDF to convert a one-car garage into a painter’s studio. Our design interrogates the received typology of the north-facing “sawtooth” clerestory and its presumptions of ideal daylighting for the production of art. Through a computational optimization process, we simulated the daylighting performance of a parametric series of hundreds of possible sawtooth roof configurations to discover a subset of optimal forms. This subset was subsequently filtered through a second stage of design criteria related to the figural potential of the sawtooth form to present the icon of the crown, a symbol common to the work of Brooklyn street artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and the commercial fast-food restaurant Burger King, which neighbors the site of the artist’s studio. By means of a performance-based computational form-finding routine, the sawtooth typology is mutated into an iconic crown figure that exceeds the daylighting performance of the received sawtooth type-form.
Project Data:
Client: Private
Status: Unbuilt
Program: Painting studio; Office
Team: David Shanks, Aurelie Frolet