Garden Studio
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The studio entrance
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Replacement of dilapidated concrete garage and creation of single storey art studio
The clients’ brief was to create a stand-alone garden studio to be used for making glass-art work. Moon re-built and extended the existing garage structure to create a new studio at the end of the garden to their Victorian terraced house in Bristol.
The building is split into two distinct volumes, the new studio and existing blockwork garage plinth at garden level being clad in fibre cement (Thrutone) slate with the street level garage above clad in vertical cedar boarding. The slate cladding both hides the unsightly blockwork behind and achieves a horizontal emphasis helping to reduce the perceived height of the building.
A large timber lift and slide door opens the studio up to the garden and looks out to the house beyond. A strip rooflight at the junction with the garage above provides views of the sky and floods the interior with more natural light.
Data
- Begun: Jan 2013
- Completed: May 2013
- Floor area: 32m2
- Sector: House
- Total cost: £48,000
- Tender date: Oct 2012
- Address: 36 Archfield Road, Cotham, Bristol, BS6 6BE, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Moon Architecture
- Client: Mr and Mrs Robertson
- Groundworks and Landscaping: BMP
- Main contractor: Moon Design and Build
- Structural engineer: JDL Consultants ltd
- Steel Staircase and balustrading: Forgecraft Ltd
- Joinery: A W Group
Suppliers
- Rooflight supplier: Howells Patent Glazing
- Thrutone Fibre cement cladding: Marley Eternit
- Timber Cladding: Vincent Timber
