JOHN DWYER ARCHITECT


Role

Location
Year   
Photography
Student Team


Consultants


Principal, Lead Designer, Project Architect, Associate Professor
Saint Paul, Minnesota
2016 Completed
Chad Holder
Tyler Bares, Celina Nelson, Alex Stanley, Gianna Madison, Josiah Hanka, Andrew Miller, Roman Zastavskiey
MG McGrath Inc.; Dunwoody College of Technology; Industrial Steel Fabricators; First & First; MA Peterson Design Build; Art & Architecture; Manifest Building; RJ Marco; Sunderland Frabotta Interiors; Willie Willette Works; Herzog Engineering
 With an ambitious program, and little funding, the Minnesota chapter of the Independent Filmmaker Project secured a 5,500 square foot, raw, whitewashed space within a 19th century warehouse. Architectural services were delivered pro bono.  Critical details were executed through an academic design build studio.  Contractors committed material and service donations including surplus structural OSB, CNC fabrication, on site installation, and scrap aluminum composite material. 

To accommodate on-site film production, sound and light were developed for ideal filming and recording. OSB hugs the east facing exterior wall and stops at partial height to diffuse and warm the natural light.  Full height partitions are pushed to the west demising wall and finished with a reflective white paint.  The result is a gradient of light from bright/warm to dark/cool.  Sound is diffused and absorbed by an acoustic cloud which was simulated and digitally fabricated to control ideal levels of white noise and reverberation.  Given the complexity of the ceiling, a point cloud scan was used to conceive of a geometry that could weave through existing elements.   The perforation pattern itself was based on an image of film reels from the antique Arriflex 16MM camera within the gallery using a custom  image processing script wthat gave the client full control of the pattern’s content and legibility.  



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