Hugh Strange Architects

Harewood Studio

Harewood Studio
© David Grandorge

HAREWOOD STUDIO

Hugh Strange Architects

ARCHITECTS
Hugh Strange Architects

MANUFACTURERS
Hafele, Mapei, Hargreaves, Hylite, MK Electric

PHOTOGRAPHS
David Grandorge

AREA
29 m²

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

CATEGORY
Offices

A small, dilapidated outbuilding, originally used to house livestock, has been renovated to provide a one-room private studio space within a linear village on the southern edge of the North Yorkshire Moors national park.

The existing walls, window and door openings of the building have been retained, their modesty disguising the transformed character of the interior space.

Harewood Studio
© David Grandorge
Harewood Studio
© David Grandorge
Harewood Studio
© David Grandorge

Inside, a concrete column, located off centre within the room, supports one corner of a mezzanine deck, and rises to prop the ridge beam part way along its span.

The quarry tiles of the floor rotate around the base of the column. To the rear of the space sits a line of built-in bookshelves, above it, a large new rooflight.

The project was completed by a father and son team of builders from the neighbouring village. The father, a mason, repaired the existing monolithic stone walls that were then lime-washed.

Harewood Studio
© David Grandorge
Harewood Studio
© David Grandorge
Harewood Studio
© David Grandorge

The son, a joiner, completed all the joinery in Douglas fir, including the new roof structure and lining, the windows and door, the mezzanine deck and the line of book shelves. The two of them worked together to construct the large concrete column.

Through this close linkage between the construction and design of the building there is a natural simplicity to the internal space.

Harewood Studio
© David Grandorge
Harewood Studio
© David Grandorge

Here, the reduced palette of materials, and abundant north light, provide the context for the spatial and symbolic play of structure around the central post.


Harewood Studio
© David Grandorge
Harewood Studio
© David Grandorge


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Hugh Strange Architects
Hugh Strange Architects
1st Floor, 2 Chapel Ct, London SE1 1HH, United Kingdom