Bushwick is a neighborhood widely known as a hub for the artistic community, attracting art galleries, prominent music venues and a vibrant and ever-growing night-life community. This 15,000 sf ground-up building will serve and bolster this growing arts community with a triple-height multipurpose event space, restaurant, artist studios, and creative offices.
VAMOS considered all of the spaces as "elastic environments" that can morph from one use into another over the course of the day-to-night cycle. The required parking is located at street level, arguably the most important part of a building, urbanistically speaking. Bushwick is a neighborhood whose creative communities operate on a 24-7 basis, so why have the entire ground floor area sit empty and unused at night time when it has the potential to be useful in other ways on the off-hours? We feel this approach adds value to the building's users and to the neighborhood.