PROGRAM: LIGHTING FABRICATION Studio

STATUS: Completed 2016

SIZE: 4,000 SF

This project was a lighting manufacturing facility for a well-known Brooklyn-based lighting design company David Weeks Studio. Our client asked us to take their new building, a century-old single-story warehouse and create their main fabrication studio, consisting of a metal shop, fabrication studio, offices, shipping and receiving areas, and outdoor space. The sequencing of incoming dirty materials and outgoing pristine final products was an essential component to making the building work for the client. We started by working out several scenarios to find the best way to organize that sequence. In addition to providing necessary structural improvements, we raised a steel and glass volume over the assembly studio to allow for fabrication of large installations, and simultaneously let natural light into the center of the work area.