The live|work pod fits the personal and professional spatial needs of a tattoo artist into a single volume with the dimensions of a standard shipping container (2.5 m x 2.5 m x 6 m), to be placed on an urban rooftop.



The strategy in this design employs sliding panels with three different modules—an open frame, a glass surface, or an opaque surface—that either divide or connect the interior spaces for their optimal use.



The pod is used mainly as a continuous, light-filled space for designing and socialising, with the tattooing equipment condensed into the smallest possible space at one end. When a customer comes, the personal space of the artist is sealed off for sanitary purposes, and the tattooing environment becomes more closed-off and focused.



As the panels move in and out of the pod, design images, rendered on transparencies and affixed to the glass panels, are projected by the angled sun onto the sidewalk beneath the pod, as a dynamic advertisement for the artist.