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Architects: Scalar Architecture
- Area: 5000 ft²
- Year: 2021
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Photographs:Imagen Subliminal
![Ivan Navarro and Courtney Smith Art Studio / Scalar Architecture - Exterior Photography](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/6180/634f/f91c/81bc/b200/000c/medium_jpg/210317_Scalar_Brooklyn_Studio_001.jpg?1635803964)
Text description provided by the architects. Scalar works with a renowned artist who crafts socially and politically relevant sculptures and installations
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Located on a former warehouse within the industrial neighborhood of Sunset Park, the three-level 5000 sf studio for the artists Ivan Navarro and Courtney Smith is a diaphanous volume for art production. Courtney Smith is an artist working in sculpture and performance. Iván Navarro is a Chilean artist of global recognition who works with light, mirrors, and glowing glass tubes to craft socially and politically relevant sculptures and installations.
![Ivan Navarro and Courtney Smith Art Studio / Scalar Architecture - Interior Photography, Table, Windows, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/6180/6345/f91c/8131/a200/000e/medium_jpg/210317_Scalar_Brooklyn_Studio_005.jpg?1635803955)
In line with their conceptual and political stance, the architectural solution reimagines, inhabits, and expands the existing facility by means of articulating recycled steel -so prevalent in the industrial activities of the neighborhood - both as structure and reflective skin. Structurally, the recycled steel structure afforded the possibility to perch over and maintain the existing masonry through a series of frames.
![Ivan Navarro and Courtney Smith Art Studio / Scalar Architecture - Interior Photography, Kitchen](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/6180/6313/f91c/81bc/b200/0008/medium_jpg/210317_Scalar_Brooklyn_Studio_006.jpg?1635803906)
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Ivan Navarro often relies on a different concept of framing to contain his works of sound, light, and reflections. In relating these complementary ideas of “frames”, the building creates a larger two-story open frame that ties all the production spaces together.
![Ivan Navarro and Courtney Smith Art Studio / Scalar Architecture - Interior Photography](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/6180/6300/f91c/81bc/b200/0006/medium_jpg/210317_Scalar_Brooklyn_Studio_010.jpg?1635803885)