9th Street Artist Studios
An exterior street-level perspective of artist studios featuring a welcoming blend of CMU blockwork and warm timber cladding, designed to integrate smoothly into a pedestrian-oriented neighborhood.
- What we like about this project
- Bicycle parking integrated directly into the entry paving plaza to emphasize alternative transit.
Materials
- cmu
- wood-slats
- glass
- concrete
- metal-railing
Visual identifiers
- wood-slat-siding
- cmu-walls
- artist-studios-signage
- pedestrian-pathway
Style tags
- contemporary
- industrial-chic
- functional
Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse
- community
- creative-workspace
- street-edge
- low-rise
- Geometry
- Low-slung orthogonal volumes stepping back from the street edge with a landscaped pedestrian pathway and entry plaza.
- Facade system
- CMU block masonry combined with glazed storefront entries and recessed wood-slat panels.
- Structural guess
- Low-rise concrete masonry unit (CMU) bearing walls with lightweight framing at infill sections.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled single-story volumes oriented toward pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight casting gentle shadows under mature tree canopies.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting, calm, and neighborhood-integrated creative workspace.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or low-rise urban context with mature trees, wide concrete sidewalks, and surrounding landscaping.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the sidewalk leads past open planting beds and bike parking directly to a covered, welcoming studio entrance.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical wood slats alternating with horizontal CMU bands create a balanced, human-scaled street facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary community-oriented commercial architecture
- Program
- Artist studios and community creative workspace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- cmu, wood-slats, glass, concrete, metal-railing
- Visual identifiers
- wood-slat-siding, cmu-walls, artist-studios-signage, pedestrian-pathway
- Style tags
- contemporary, industrial-chic, functional
- Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse, community, creative-workspace, street-edge, low-rise
- Geometry
- Low-slung orthogonal volumes stepping back from the street edge with a landscaped pedestrian pathway and entry plaza.
- Facade system
- CMU block masonry combined with glazed storefront entries and recessed wood-slat panels.
- Structural guess
- Low-rise concrete masonry unit (CMU) bearing walls with lightweight framing at infill sections.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled single-story volumes oriented toward pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight casting gentle shadows under mature tree canopies.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting, calm, and neighborhood-integrated creative workspace.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or low-rise urban context with mature trees, wide concrete sidewalks, and surrounding landscaping.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the sidewalk leads past open planting beds and bike parking directly to a covered, welcoming studio entrance.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical wood slats alternating with horizontal CMU bands create a balanced, human-scaled street facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary community-oriented commercial architecture
- Program
- Artist studios and community creative workspace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture