White Creek, New York Studio 1,100 SF 2022
On a rural parcel in upstate New York, MSTMA designed a studio building for an artist. Taking cues from a barn building on the site that has been used as a primary residence by the artist’s family and lovingly restored over decades, we designed a simple, flexible enclosure.
We nestled two shipping containers already on the site, used by the artist to store work, into the side of a small hill and used them as the studio’s foundation, reducing the need for earthwork. The space captured between them acts as an outdoor workspace. A concrete stair cuts into the earth and leads from this compressed condition upward to the studio, where two volumes nest inside one another.
The outer volume echoes the form of the barn. A heavy timber frame maximizes open space, which is
kept unconditioned to lower costs and allow flexibility for multimedia work, while multiwall polycarbonate panels allow light to enter. A secondary volume, nested within this larger space, is fully conditioned, allowing for year-round work and climate control for sensitive materials.
Artist’s Studio
White Creek, New York
Studio
1,100 SF
2022 On a rural parcel in upstate New York, MSTMA designed a studio building for an artist. Taking cues from a barn building on the site that has been used as a primary residence by the artist’s family and lovingly restored over decades, we designed a simple, flexible enclosure.
We nestled two shipping containers already on the site, used by the artist to store work, into the side of a small hill and used them as the studio’s foundation, reducing the need for earthwork. The space captured between them acts as an outdoor workspace. A concrete stair cuts into the earth and leads from this compressed condition upward to the studio, where two volumes nest inside one another.
The outer volume echoes the form of the barn. A heavy timber frame maximizes open space, which is
kept unconditioned to lower costs and allow flexibility for multimedia work, while multiwall polycarbonate panels allow light to enter. A secondary volume, nested within this larger space, is fully conditioned, allowing for year-round work and climate control for sensitive materials.
