Stuart Dunbar is standing in an entryway, looking up at an expanse of ceiling. “In some sense, it’s ‘blackbox space,” he says. Then he pauses. Looks left and right. “But not really,” he says, not surprised by the slight twist before his conclusion.

Stuart Dunbar’s entryway is the entryway to 38 Cameron Avenue, a new venue and performance space just outside of Davis Square in Cambridge. And despite its proximity to this square, there is nothing square, nothing stale or tired, about its design. Or its possibilities.

“We were really billing it out to businesses, smaller type conference retreats,” Dunbar says, recalling 38 Cameron’s opening two months ago. Then another twist: “It just so happens that it’s perfect for film.”

“There are all sorts of things you do in a place like this,” Dunbar says. “Everything is actually designed to focus on the function space: it all echoes the curves and spaces of the function room, to facilitate focused inquiry.”

Though the focus of who and what the space can best serve continues to evolve, Dunbar still is able to give reason for the venue’s appeal to people in the film industry (he also considers the space well-equipped for magazine shoots or film screenings). “It’s just a cool space,” he says. “It’s funky, they want to be associated with it.”

James Stiles immediately wanted to be associated with it. Stiles, director of newenglandcasting.com, a talent database for directors and producers, was contacted by 38 Cameron about advertising. He was fast inspired.

Stiles had seven filmmakers who were registering to look for talent. “Hey, do you mind if you cast together?” he said to them, envisioning all the filmmakers and all the talent gathering in one spot. That spot was, of course, 38 Cameron.

On a Saturday and Sunday in June, 38 Cameron was host to, at Stiles’ estimate, 450 producers, directors, actors, comics, and models -- what Stiles calls “a very exciting turn-out” and what Dunbar admits was “nerve-wracking. People just kept coming!”

But the space is accommodating. “There’s a certain kind of ease that defines a space that’s designed well, that facilitates the end product.” Dunbar says. “With James, the flow of the event came very easily … solely a function of the design for the space.”

That design, Stiles agrees, makes for “a delightful space. It’s stylish … curvaceous … you walk in and you go ‘wow’”.

Kevin Fennessy, of Kevin Fennessy Casting and independent projects, also attests to positive first-impressions and inspirations. Present at Stiles’ open casting, he says “I walked in and thought this could be a great production facility, a great place for an independent or film from out of town.”

Indeed, 38 Cameron attracts diverse interests because it works to successfully cater to all visitors, from film companies or elsewhere. “It’s a kind of turnkey -- it seems to be set up like you could just walk in and be there, and when you’re through you could leave,” says Fennecs.

“It has a flow to it,” Stiles says. “I felt the room, coordinated the moving in and out, and it just worked great. It’s very film-friendly. For shooting or cast calls or workshops or anything.”

It is further, Dunbar hopes, friendly toward altruistic events. More recently, 38 Cameron hosted Music for a Cause, an evening of jazz performance to benefit the Iraqi National Symphony. The night was Dunbar’s favorite.

“Everyone got the sense of the event’s importance,” Dunbar says, crediting the space as an enabler for this success. Ben Sterner, the high school jazz pianist phenom, performed as a headliner. He, too, feels 38 Cameron enabled the event’s cohesion.

“The care that 38 Cameron put into the preparations for this event played a significant part in the impact of its message,” Stepner says. “It was an evening that added up to much more than the sum of its parts.”

In a circle, an infinite numbers of parts on the curve extend from the center. From 38 Cameron, an almost equally infinite number of possibilities extend. Dunbar says his ultimate goal is always to “bring together visionary, creative thinkers into a forum that can be very focused … and yet can include the public.” He hopes such gatherings can continue to take place at 38 Cameron, a place whose four outer walls are indeed the concrete of a one-time warehouse, but whose inside is pure ‘thinking outside the box’ manifest.