Cloud ceiling delineates space
Open space floor plan
Break Room: "The Break Room cabinetry comprises of a series of toolboxes assembled in a very frugal and efficient manner. One can pause here, look outside the big windows which are rescues from a missed order. They are arranged in a funky way to pay homage to the original hodgepodge of recycled building material and car parts which once stood in their place." - Matteo Rapallini, AIA
Conceptual Sketch for our Adaptive Reuse
StudioMa's Lobby: "As you continue through the lobby, I wanted visitors to separate this experience from the rest, I thought this is a special place…Before the building ever appeared to have a Gable style facade, it had been a hip roof building many years before. Its lobby, was once a porch Facing North West in the beautiful Fall, Winter, and Spring evenings of of The South East." - Matteo Rapallini, AIA
Main Studio Space
Main Studio Space: "I decided that the main studio would be an inspirational space where design is celebrated. I yearned to create an atmosphere that would encourage production. The workstations for the employees are symmetrically displaced into the main space -- if this were a Roadster, the main studio would function like the engine block; at the workstations, architects and interns would function philosophically as running pistons at the core of the propulsion system."
- Matteo Rapallini, AIA
Studio view from passageway
Conference Room: The Box
Conference Room: "The conference room is another experience altogether. In the back of the old shop there once existed a small supply room, a kitchen once when the main building was a school house. I wanted to extrude this dimension and slide it into the main space; once again I felt that this was another realm — I wanted this element of the program to be of importance and not just tucked away as a door to access that had once been punched through a wall. I visualized that this would be an excellent space for our conference room, a place where people meet and where people cerebrate. We extended this space and wrapped it with recycled cladding materials. I wanted it to sit on the floor like a jewelry box; a box that would contain a surprise within, another experiential space to be discovered as one would open its doors." - Matteo Rapallini, AIA
Exterior View into Break Room
Hallway
StudioMa's backyard and fire pit
Conference Room featuring Breuer Cesca Chairs and custom-made conference table made in Italy.
Gabion Wall/ Fountain
Exterior side view