View of editing suite (left) and client/conference room (right) with motion controlled camera robot in foreground.
Industrial Edge Meets High-Tech Precision in The Garage’s New Studio.
The Garage - IC is a 15,000 sq.ft. studio and video production facility for The Garage Inc. a world-renowned Visual Engineering/Tabletop Production Studio. For their new studio and production space in Brooklyn’s Industry City, AE Superlab drew inspiration from the industrial character of the existing building as well as the precision engineering of the robotic technology utilized by The Garage to design a space that embraces the raw utilitarianism of the warehouse structure and introduces precisely articulated glass and steel functional volumes and interventions.
Working within a well-defined budget, the design team chose to focus much of the available resources on a number of key, high impact zones while celebrating the industrial character of the exposed structural and HVAC systems. These exposed systems in turn required additional care and coordination so as to integrate successfully within the space.
View of client/conference room.
The programmatically complex space is organized around two central free-standing volumes which serve to define the boundary between office and production zones to the north and the 2 large flexible studios to the south without interrupting it’s spatial or visual continuity. The volumes present as high-tech sculptural objects wrapped in full height uninterrupted curved glass and custom high gloss curved black lacquer panels. Their ceilings are discreetly suspended from the existing exposed structure above and appear to levitate lightly over the conference/client rooms.
View of entrance corridor with 9x9 ft. pivot door at right.
View of editing/color suite interior.
Other key elements include; custom millwork throughout; twin parallel light-tracers that converge and diverge as they wind their way through the space, illuminating and defining the primary circulation corridor; and a fully insulated editing/color suite. A pair of custom 700 lb, 9x9 ft black lacquer center pivot doors function as movable partitions between public, production, and studio zones, and allow the users to visually and functionally transform the space with a single light touch.
