Amant is an arts campus spread across three blocks of rapidly changing, industrial North Brooklyn. This cultural incubator functions both privately and publicly, with artist studios, galleries, offices, storage, and a cafe.

The mini- campus is a part of, benefits from, and contributes to the local community.

Pockets of outdoor spaces, multiple entries, and openings cohabit the ground with other members of the neighborhood.

Public routes channeled through large city blocks circulate the community in a new way. Courtyards and thoroughfares weave through and between existing buildings and make public functions sunk deep within accessible to all visitors beyond the more private spaces at the periphery.

Each of the four buildings in this collection contributes a gallery unique in proportion, size, light quality, and infrastructure. The porous campus remains flexible to curation as a group or individually, and facilitates programs ranging from technically demanding to large scale to intimate.

Materials render the buildings partly anonymous. Deeply textured form liners shape cast-in-plane concrete. Bricks rotate out of plane to catch a shadow. Galvanized steel bars toy with reflection and transparency. They nestle comfortably within their manufacturing and industrial storage context, and, up close, offer surprising tactilities, details, and depth that betray the familiar and the everyday.

Client: Lonti Ebers

Location: Brooklyn, New York

Program: Artist studios, galleries, performance space, offices, and cafe.

Design: 2014

Completion: 2021

Project area: 21000sf / 1950 m2 (GFA)

Design Team: Florian Idenburg, Jing Liu, Ilias Papageorgiou, Kevin Lamyuktseung, Ted Baab, Pietro Pagliaro, Grace Lee, Sanger Clark, Lucia Sanchez-Ramirez, Álvaro Gómez-Sellés, Kristen Too, Christopher Riley, Alexandre Hamlyn, Regina Teng, Etienne Vallat, Marisa Musing, Tyler Mauri, Julie Perrone, Mario Serrano, Diego Fernandez, John Chow

Architect of Record: Andrew Reyniak

Consultants:

Rather than an inward-looking space isolated from its urban context, our

collection of distributed volumes weaves itself into the fabric of the city.

Project Manager: Paratus Group Structural: Silman Associates

MEP: CES Engineering, Plus Group Engineering Lighting: Buro Happold Engineering

Cladding Consultant: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger

Civil: Bohler Engineering

Expediter: J. Callahan Consulting, Inc.

Acoustics / AV / Security: Harvey Marshall Berling Associates Concrete: Reginald Hough Associates

Geotechnical: Langan Engineering, PMT Laboratories, Inc Landscape: Future Green

Graphics: Linked by Air

Project area: 1670 m2 (GFA)

Name: Rafael Gamo