The Westlake residence is located in Westlake, Seattle. The first half of the construction site will house the business by the name of, “MadArt”. MadArt’s mission is to support emerging artists in the Seattle community, to bring art into the lives of those in the community in unexpected ways and to create community involvement in the arts. The other half of the building is for residences and studio apartments. The philosophy of the building having half residential and half business, made me realize how to maximize a space to its full capacity. The layout of the residential spaces is beautiful and they made me think of spatial planning differently. All spaces apart from the top floor penthouse apartment are studios. These studio apartments have one level with a kitchen and recreational space and they have stairs leading up to the bedroom space. All of the residencies made me rethink the use of natural lighting and the sizing of windows. Each space has floor to ceiling windows for natural lighting. This made me think of how interaction with humans and their needs to be with nature and the outside is important. This really made me rethink the idea of what a studio apartment means to me and how vast the opportunities for natural lighting in a residential space are.
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