The Bakehouse Arts Complex reimagines an existing arts facility housed in an Art Deco-era industrial bakery in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood. The design envisions an expanded creative campus featuring artist studios, community and creative commercial spaces, and 286 units of affordable and mixed-use housing. The development extends the building’s industrial character into a new spatial framework—one that connects Bakehouse to both its immediate neighborhood and Miami’s broader cultural community.

Complementing the existing building’s sawtooth roof and flour silos, the new interior is organized by a series of curved forms that define studio and making spaces. These curves continue to the exterior, where a serrated roof structure and pathways move through a new shared community garden. The central garden links the original Bakehouse building to a new single-story addition along the northern side of the site, which provides spaces for artists and creative businesses. These studios feature glazed facades that invite the public to engage directly with artistic processes. A paseo connecting 32nd and 33rd Streets encourages movement through the campus, dissolving traditional barriers between public and private space.

An eight-story housing tower anchors the site’s northwest corner, preserving valuable open space and taking advantage of the site’s visibility from I-95. The elevator tower echoes the massing of the historic flour silos, while the serrated façade reflects the form of the existing sawtooth roof. Together, these formal correspondences extend the logic of the original building into the new construction, maintaining continuity across the campus.

The plan also envisions the eastern side of the site as a denser mixed-income housing development, anchored by a day and after-school care center, a grocery store, and shared parking. Taken together, the new construction, adaptive reuse, and central landscape create a campus where the full range of life centered around the arts—making, gathering, learning, and living—can take place within a single, continuous urban environment.