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Integrating Creative Spaces: Designing Art Studio Additions at Home

Olivia Poston — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:00:00 +0000

The home carries multiple identities as shelter, sanctuary, workplace, and stage for daily rituals. In recent years, its role has expanded in unprecedented ways. The pandemic, notably, coerced the home to act as a site of extraordinary adaptability to absorb functions once delegated to schools, offices, gyms, and studios. This transformation has shifted how we imagine domestic life, urging us to think of the home not simply as a backdrop for activity but as a dynamic framework for living, producing, and creating. Within this expanded understanding, artists find themselves asking a renewed question: how can the home allow the flexibility needed for creative practice?

Windows as Thresholds That Merge Interior and Exterior Spaces

Eduardo Souza — Fri, 16 May 2025 01:30:00 +0000

In The Poetics of Space, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard proposes reading architecture as a lived experience, in which each environment carries emotional and symbolic meaning. Reflecting on the house, he places particular importance on thresholds (windows, doors, stairs, attics, basements) as zones of transition and rupture between the intimate and the open, the known and the unknown. For him, the window is not merely a functional opening, but a point of dreaming and contemplation: it is through the window that the inhabitant projects themselves into the world. This perspective inspires a sensitive approach to architectural work, in which boundaries are not limited to separation, but articulate imagination, memory, and desire.

OSB Panels in Interiors: From a Humble Material to a Design Feature

Valeria Montjoy — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 07:30:00 +0000

From its outer skin to its structural framing system, a building is made out of many layers. Just like a human body, many of those layers – which tend to be the most crucial, functional components – remain unseen by the public, covered with aesthetic features. Among all the hidden elements, all buildings include sheathing, the outer casing that construction crews place to serve several key purposes: protect the floor, walls, roofs and ceilings, fortify the structure against internal and external forces, and cover the entire framework, giving the building a solid shape.

House for a Painter / DTR_studio architects

Daniela Cardenas — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 05:00:00 +0000

This house has three elements very importants: 1. The developers: Joseba and María . 2. The situation, Gaucín and 3. The position, linked with the land and the amazing views.

Cadam: Apartment Renovation For a Musician / DTR_studio arquitectos

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 05:00:00 +0000

The apartment is in the corner on the last floor of a sixties building. It is a sunny flat but with a conventional layout : a large “L” shaped corridor giving access to the living-room and four bedrooms (all towards the façade) and the kitchen and two bathrooms (towards the patio).