future home and studio complex
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STUDIO HOME STUDIO complex
Home in the middle with our studios to either side.
Each structure designed to independently advantage natural light and solar energy/warming as defined by our needs.
On 3.5 steep acres with house site situated on a saddleback ridge with moderate exposure both south and north. Buildings to access as much southern thermal exposure as possible while maintaining a discriminate exposure to the roads below.
Water catchment/roofs integrated into aquaponic greenhouse and terraced gardens.
Home:
Small roughly 600 sq ft 2/3rds open spiraling from kitchen to sitting to dining to relaxing areas including as much built in functional storage usage space as possible. The small scale of the home requires all space to be fully utilized.
Bathroom and bedroom enclosed spaces of quiet comfort including a large comfortable bath tub.
Kitchen fully accessible from two standing scale human spaces aside each other. One facing the sink the other facing the cooking surface with appropriate chopping and preparation areas associated with each space.
Drain and storage spaces intertwined. Commonly used plates, bowls and utensils stored to be washed and put up to dir dry into sink including colander over sink like pots and pans over the cook area.
Pottery collection integrating kitchen to dining to relaxing areas.
Large glass southern and eastern exposures.
Interior spaces including cooking eating seating mimicked outside south/east also with screened in sleeping space outside (northside?).
Greenhouse aquaponics water-catchment system
Accessible from house and my studio (if not directly accessible easily accessed)
Small greenhouse for a modest plant collection and indoor cultivation of food plants and starts transitioning to cold frames to the terraced gardens on the slope.
Exploring trout and mushroom cultivation looking for adaptable situations for interlocking fish and veggie production consumption. (our own consumption scale)
A moss bed on the slope with small water features for amphibian habitat and breeding connected to water catchment and aquaponic system.
My studio overall wants and needs:
Roughly 700 sq feet total floor space
West/north access via roll up door or equivalent Storage container and parking unloading w/covered access that can be used as outdoor shop area seasonally.
South/east access home interior/exterior mirrored.
Working-installing area 700 sq ft w/fully controllable lighting including 8 to 10 inch deep windows north and south that can be shuttered outside.
Sunroom reading-room, library, office and guest bedroom 200 sq ft --- over lowered ceiling area downstairs work/storage area open to the remaining 500 square feet open floor to ceiling insulation roof.
Downstairs storage and drawing area with focused light work areas. So that from one central space under the sunroom - I can have minimally obstructed views of the lengths of the two opposing walls a portable work area will be stationed. Perhaps accessing the sunroom via skylight for disused light source that can also be shuttered when needed.
500 sq ft open space high (14 +/-ft) ceiling in installation area including track lighting 10 feet above the floor. (need to explore low energy use ligting to replicate museum lighting. (traditionally I have used tungsten and halogen combined but need to consider future changes in museum lighting)
Most storage, work tables. and furniture on rollers (stage set casters - heavy duty bases of 1 to 3 inch of multiply)
Storage container (we own one now and plan to buy a second 20 foot container to use first as onsite storage for the construction then for a second storage container for clay usage.
Water sink
Floor drain with showerhead - overhead
Maybe a self-composting toilet - but not if my studio accesses the house in direct relationship to the interior bathroom.
Maybe an enclosed or partially enclosed bathroom. My old studio in Dallas had a walk through shower stall open to the sink area you walked through to access the privacy of the toilet. I liked that spiral format.
studio windows are work areas.
The north facing roughly 8 feet square will be used primarily as a light source for photography and an even light source window for installing work.
The south side windows under the sunroom will be two roughly 8 feet square (6 by 8?) windows with shelving built in for me to install work in. It will be best if these south facing windows can be shutter from inside and out to give a work surface on the inside walls at times. Exterior sandblasted glass for southside diffusion downstairs.
Accessible power outlets overhead with pressurized air in common work areas mostly if not all together under the sunroom and along inside common wall.
More to come
Including Victoria's studio, kiln room and storage on the east side of the home.
Design architect team: