MONI Studio NYC

Ridgewood, new york (2025)

MONI Studio is a creative studio and multipurpose venue in Ridgewood, New York. Working within a 5,000-square-foot industrial warehouse, I approached the project as an opportunity to translate my sculptural and atmospheric language into architecture—reimagining utility through spatial composition and material intention. Built for high-end commercial shoots, exhibitions, and private events, MONI offers a setting where experimentation and elegance coexist.

The design extracts vibrancy within monochrome, using texture, surface, and light as pigments in themselves. Silver metals, concrete, glass, crystal, and mirror establish the foundation of the space—materials chosen for their ability to reflect, diffuse, and sculpt light. Minimal geometry and restraint shape the environment, creating a calibrated field of luminosity. The space carries the same ethereal quality that guides my art practice, where light, translucency, and material transformation are central. Every custom detail was conceived as part of a continuous visual dialogue: architecture as sculpture, sculpture as architecture.

I manipulated ceiling heights to create moments of compression and release, subtly choreographing how visitors move through the studio. The 11-foot entrance doors set the tone for that transition—introducing a shift in scale and a quiet sense of anticipation. One of the central challenges was integrating MONI’s major production components into a cohesive environment in which each element visually complements the next. By resolving this through atmosphere rather than ornamentation, I aimed to build a space that supports the flow of creativity through harmonious composition.

The studio features a 48-foot-wide unobstructed infinity cyc wall and a 15 × 12-foot LED screen with over five million pixels, offering immersive potential for film and image-based work.

A streamlined kitchen and a private office enclosed by black metal-framed glass establish flexible thresholds between openness and intimacy; the office can become fully private with remote-controlled blackout curtains. The entire space can be lit in multiple configurations, enabling different atmospheres to emerge according to the needs of each production, exhibition, or event.