Sisters, OR, east of the Cascade Mountain Range and Willamette National Forrest is home to a vibrant and active arts community, but as the number of artists grows, the infrastructure to support their endeavors is limited.  This project, initiated by a local arts organization, challenged designers to create mobile artist studios, which would provide self sufficient live and work components ready to deploy and take advantage of unused land in the area.

LIVE :: WORK :: TRANSMIT views the studio as the artists'​ PLATFORM, providing the interface between two extremes: the outer and inner environments.  The patterns and processes at work at either scale manifest best in a minimal immediate setting where SENSITIVITY is heightened. The  live and work units are derived from the same module that can be easily hitched to a vehicle and expanded once sited by means of pop out compartments, allowing an open plan that retains spatial definition.  The detached buildings enable the NECESSITY of functional separation while creating inward CONNECTION through hinged circulation. Outward connection is achieved through selective TRANSPARENCY in all four cardinal directions, regardless of siting.  SIMPLICITY supports solitude, encouraging transmission of a sum greater that its parts... the artist's work.

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