An Artist Residence for Living
Making and Exhibiting Art
An artist’s live-work residence in St. Louis, using interlocking volumes to connect galleries, studios, domestic rooms, and an outdoor gallery walk.
Context
In the Grand Center Arts District, the residence places artistic production and exhibition alongside domestic life. The design question is how to connect these activities while giving public, shared, and private spaces distinct degrees of access.
Approach
Interlocking concrete studies provide the organizing logic. Rooms and voids are assembled across three levels, with galleries and workspaces connected to domestic rooms through changes in level, openings, and an outdoor gallery walk.
Casting and aggregation
Concrete casts investigate solid and void, inside and outside, and the contact between neighboring pieces. Their interlocking logic becomes the project’s spatial discipline: individual elements retain a clear identity while the assembly creates relationships unavailable to any single part.
Living, making, exhibiting
The ground floor combines a welcome gallery, maker space, storage, and outdoor art walk. Above are the main gallery and double-height living room, followed by bedrooms, conference space, drawing studio, and music corner. Roof and end openings modulate daylight between public and domestic rooms.