The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) is located at 142 Franklin Street in Tribeca, New York. The user experience design draws inspiration from post-minimalist art, embracing site-specificity and spatial ambiguity while optimizing practicality.
Role
Concept Designer, Drafter
Focus
Spatial Design, User Experience, Event Design
Lower Floor Storage Room
“A new downtown home for the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art.The space comprises 4,000 sqft of exhibition space across two levels, as well as a research center, archives, staff and conference spaces, and more.”
Renderings produced with Rhino and Enscape
“Hide the details, Thicken the walls.”
We took inspirations from the artists including Thomas Demand and Caruso st John. Through the careful use of subtle, but particular, design elements such as Douglas Fir end-grain flooring, patterned glass dividers, and eccentric areas for display, Over- head sought to signal that ISLAA’s new home would not be an inert “white box,” but rather a place that is alive with conversation and serious inquiry, and a place for the direct experience of work that has long awaited such visibility.
Thomas Demand + Caruso St John at M Leuven in Belgium
The space comprised of a sizable collection of ISLAA’s legacy over the years yet maintaining a degree of programmatic ambiguity to allow the institution to continue to evolve. ISLAA have referred to themselves as an archipelago, and we see the space as a continuation of that same logic – many different functions coexist in a manner that is carefully choreographed, but the specific form they take is rather loose.
Renderings produced with Rhino and Enscape
Construction Shots - Before and After
Renderings produced with Rhino and Enscape
