![Palmerston Studio / Boyd Cody Architects - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5007/739f/28ba/0d41/4800/2487/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1427242567)
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Architects: Boyd Cody Architects
- Area: 25 m²
- Year: 2008
Text description provided by the architects. Our client, an artist, asked us to design a studio, full of natural light, to be built at the end of her garden.
![Palmerston Studio / Boyd Cody Architects - Facade, Garden](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5007/739a/28ba/0d41/4800/2486/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1427242588)
Having recently completed a two-storey addition to the main house, we wished the studio to continue the sculptural language of this form to complete the spatial arrangement of volumes in the garden.
![Palmerston Studio / Boyd Cody Architects - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5007/7396/28ba/0d41/4800/2485/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1427242572)
Modest in size, the studio’s massing is determined by the existing small outbuilding and the geometry of the garden. It is a tall space with a large central roof-light under which the artist works. In order to animate the space further, a shaft of south light is directed into the studio through a deep recess over the entrance. A picture window at ground level provides a view down the garden while at the same time framing the activity of the studio.
![Palmerston Studio / Boyd Cody Architects - Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5007/73a3/28ba/0d41/4800/2488/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1427242592)
Internally the studio is read as a neutral white space, allowing the furniture and the artist’s work to take on a painterly quality. Externally, the studio is clad in corten steel, an economic and expressive material, its colour and slow patination re-enforces the building’s sculptural quality.
![Palmerston Studio / Boyd Cody Architects - Shelving, Table](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5007/73ab/28ba/0d41/4800/248a/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1427242577)