畫廊及工作室 美國威斯康星州，拉辛市

業主：羅伯特·奧斯本，維拉·斯凱奇

建筑面積：3 300 平方英尺

項目類型：畫廊和藝術家工作室

竣工時間：2019 年

攝影：約翰·J·麥考利

Client: Robert Osborne, Vera Scekic

Building Area: 3 300 sf

Program: Art Gallery and Artist’s Studio

Completion Year: 2019

Photography: John J.Macaulay

在威斯康星州拉辛市的中心地帶，這座銹跡斑斑的制造中心因數十年的經濟停滯和城市撤資而廢棄，畫廊和工作室大樓是為一位畫家和當地藝術倡導者設計的，他打算為這座城市創造一個新的文化支柱，一個將有助于重振拉辛目前萎靡不振的市中心的文化支柱。該項目將畫家自己的工作室與街頭藝術畫廊搭配成對；稱為OS Projects，畫廊向公眾開放，展出了來自中西部的當代藝術家精心策劃的展品。

該建筑坐落在由兩個重疊的城市網格構成的梯形城市街區盡頭的一小塊空地上，占地3250 平方英尺。建筑物覆蓋了歷史磚結構街區，并重建了沿維拉街以及第六和第七街的街道邊緣，這兩條重要的大道將拉辛西部社區和密歇根湖連接在一起。

雖然占地沿著正交的地產線延伸，但土地上空權允許二樓在人行道上部分懸臂，使其可以沿著第六街的傾斜角度。當建筑上層偏離建筑的長方形底座時，在東北角形成了一個銳角懸垂，勾勒并突出了該地點獨特的城市環境，即相互競爭的街道網格，并賦予上層藝術工作室強大的街頭氣息。

這座建筑的基本體量容納了藝術畫廊，其特色是精心設計的白色混凝土砌體皮膚，覆蓋著一片巨大的青銅板和精心布置的畫廊窗戶，然后延伸到覆蓋藝術工作室的南端。經過風化處理的青銅面板的雜色與連續的深灰色帶狀條板的材料精度和明快的線條并置，條板將上方的懸臂式工作室空間連接起來，并將14 英尺-6英寸高的幕墻圍框起來，其透明、半透明和空腹玻璃窗的混合為工作空間提供了充足的自然光。一系列10 英寸深的鋁制百葉窗大大減少了室內眩光，并形成了一個有節奏的垂直線區域，其外觀隨著一天中的時間和觀看的角度而變化。

一扇巨大的樞軸門是建筑的主要入口。門和上面的墻完全齊平，入口的垂直門檻采用與之相匹配的鮮艷飾面，從地面一直延伸到建筑頂部，在那里，上層懸臂上的連續混凝土絲帶充當一個小罩篷，然后沿著鄰近建筑的一側折向下。

這座建筑雖小，但在改造步履維艱的城市核心地區方面發揮了變革作用，一經成形，便重新激起了人們對這個沉寂多年的城市的興趣；許多廢棄或未得到充分利用的建筑物和附近的店面已經翻新并重新投入使用?；蛟S更重要的是，在開業幾個月以來，這座建筑已經成為拉辛新的文化目的地，吸引了當地人和威斯康星州東南部的游客前來參加畫廊開幕，社區聚會和工作室參觀。

Located in in the heart of Racine, Wisconsin, a former rustbelt manufacturing center maimed by decades of economic stagnation and urban disinvestment, the Gallery and Studio building was designed for a painter and local art advocate who set out to create a new cultural anchor for the city, one that would help revitalize Racine’scurrently anemic downtown. The project pairs the painter’s own studio on the upper level with a street level art gallery; called OS Projects, the gallery is open to the public and features carefully curated exhibits of contemporary artists from the Midwest.

Sitting on a narrow sliver of vacant land at the end of a trapezoid city block shaped by two overlapping urban grids, the 3,250 sf.building caps the block of historic brick structures and re-establishes the street edges along Villa Street as well as Sixth and Seventh Streets, both important thoroughfares that connect Racine’s western neighborhoods with Lake Michigan.

While the ground-level footprint traces the orthogonal property lines, an air rights variance from the City permitted the second floor to partially cantilever over the side walk, allowing it to follow the oblique angle of Sixth Street. As the upper level veers away from the building’s rectangular base, it forms an acute-angled overhang at the north-east corner that delineates and accentuates the site’s distinct urban condition of competing street grids and give the upper level art studio a robust street presence.

The building’s base volume housing the art gallery features a carefully detailed white concrete masonry skin that wraps over a field of tall bronze panels and strategically-placed gallery windows before extending up to clad the southern end of the art studio. The variegation of the weathering bronze panels is juxtaposed with the material precision and crisp lines of the continuous dark-gray ribbon that articulates the cantilevered studio volume above and frames the 14’-6” tall curtain wall enclosure, its mix of transparent, translucent, and spandrel glazing providing the workspace with an abundance of naturalight. A series of 10” deep aluminum louvers significantly reduce glare inside and form a cadenced field of vertical lines whose appearance changes depending on the time of the day and the angle from which it is viewed.

A monumental pivot door serves as the main entry into the building. The door and the wall above are perfectly flush, their matching brightly-colored finish marking the entry as a vertical threshold that extends from the ground all the way to the top of the building, where the continuous concrete ribbon from the upper level cantilever serves as a small canopy before folding down along the side of the neighboring building.

The building exemplifies the transformative role that a small but architecturally ambitious project can play in the reinvention of a struggling urban core.As soon as the structure started taking shape, it sparked renewed interest in a part of town that had laid dormant for years; many abandoned or underutilized buildings and storefronts close-by have since been renovated and put back to use.Perhaps more importantly, in the few months since it opened, the building has already established itself as a new cultural destination in Racine, attracting both locals and visitors from Southeast Wisconsin to gallery openings, community gatherings, and studio tours.

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