Brooklyn, New York

All arts share a common sensibility toward process, proportion, and rhythm.  Brooklyn craft is an expression of the present thread between a cooking class and an art studio.  In both venues the tools are celebrated and the working surfaces precious.  Common storage and vertical surfaces surround the classroom and these crafting apparatuses, but it is the commonality of their proportions - their unitized articulation - that connect both spaces, support creative exploration, and reinforce the notion of craft at the school.  The continuous pin-up surface is expressed as continuous unifying element within the space.  This interactive wall also conceals the required storage for both classrooms, including the refrigerator for the culinary lab.  

In the Culinary Lab, each workstation acts as a base around which a group of students may craft their culinary inventions.  The end piece functions as a mobile extension of that base to hold supplies and provide additional workspace.  At the end of the week these moveable units can be clustered together to form a communal table around which the students may gather to share the fruits and vegetables of their labors.  

The organization of the art studio is in this regard a similar inverse - with modules that are effectively mobile with a minimal base by which units can be parked for maximized spatial flexibility.  This speaks to the individuality of their endeavor, while also allowing for a communal arrangement similar to the culinary dinner table counterpart.