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 100 units of affordable artist housing. At the core of the project is the principle of permeability—maintaining continuous connections between Bakehouse and the surrounding Wynwood community. The development extends the building’s industrial character into a new spatial framework that links the institution to both its immediate neighborhood and Miami’s broader cultural landscape.

At the center of the campus, a new accessible amenity garden provides a place where artists, neighbors, and visitors can interact and meet. Indoor and outdoor spaces are organized around a series of curvilinear pathways that connect interior and exterior environments, creating a fluid sense of continuous movement through the site. Complementing the existing building’s sawtooth roof and flour silos, these curved forms connect studio and making spaces inside and extend outward, where a serrated roof structure and pathways move through the 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.

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 and takes 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, intertwining history and the future across the campus.

Together, the new construction, adaptive reuse, and central landscape create a campus where making, gathering, learning, and living unfold within a single continuous environment — one that remains open and permeable to the surrounding Wynwood community.