House + Ballet Studio

Inspired by one of the artist Reiko Sudo’s quilts, the House + Ballet Studio was developed as an accumulation of patches carefully knitted within and sheltered underneath a mesh box. This outer shell creates a protected inside world, an unseen scenography. The way in which the fragments are assembled responds to the specificities of the various movements and flows implied by the ballet studio, dancewear store, sewing workshop, and, most significantly, by the ballerina’s house, which is the starting stimulus for the entire internal motion of the space. For a ballerina, the body movements are precisely calculated, studied, and perfected over time. Similarly, each component of the spatial composition is planned to accompany a consistent tempo. The patches are intertwined through in-between corridors, intimate alleyways, or twisted stairs that constitute an elaborated singular space.