Unfolding new spaces: Brunner teams up with atelier oï | News | Architonic

“I don’t know why the app suggests that circuitous route,” says one of the team, all smiles and sympathy, when I arrive at my destination. “The road less-travelled,” I reply, thinking how apt a metaphor it is for a transdisciplinary outfit that’s spent over three decades experimenting, challenging the received boundaries of material, form and, indeed, typology. Unsurprisingly, the building itself is a major typology-bender. A cleverly adapted landmark motel from the late 1950s, atelier oï’s three-storey “Moïtel” (see what they did there?) is home to 900 square metres of workshops, offices, a materials library and a photographic studio, as well as a dedicated gallery space.