Bridge-Studio, Victoria Meyers architect, for hanrahan Meyers architects: summer 2012
Victoria Meyers architect is pleased to present Bridge-Studio, a new artist studio building in Easton, Pennsylvania. Bridge-Studio is a new workspace designed for Joe Amrhein and Susan Swenson, a couple who are artists as well as owners of Pierogi Gallery, and its companion, the Boiler event space, in New York City. Bridge-Studio houses a painting studio for the Joe on the east side, and a writing studio for Susan on the west. An open air breezeway runs through the center, connecting back to the site with an entry ramp to the north. Bridge-Studio is entered by walking up the entry ramp, into the open breezeway overlooking the Delaware River, approximately 120 feet below the site.
Victoria Meyers architect post
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The breezeway fireplace hearth houses a flue for a fireplace in the breezeway, in the writing studio, and a third fireplace in the outdoor area below the deck. In addition to producing their own bodies of work, the clients own a prominent gallery in Williamsburg, New York, and a gallery/ event space, also in Williamsburg. Joe and Susan regularly entertain artists and clients from their gallery at their home in Pennsylvania. The couple’s desire for an appropriate setting to entertain artist friends created part of the program for the Bridge-Studio.
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Bridge-Studio was designed as a small urban or rural proto-type, and the architects are offering plans of the building free to communities who would like to replicate the project. The prototype was featured on this blog, with the building shown in different settings for different urban and rural conditions.
The building offers an inexpensive and easy prototype for communities where flooding is an issue, or where small shop owners wish to have living quarters above the street, with a street-level shop below.
