MOS Architects

Winters Studio

Winters Studio
© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample

WINTERS STUDIO

Mos Architects

ARCHITECTS
Mos Architects

AREA
557.0 m2

YEAR
2007

CATEGROY
Offices

LOCATION
Columbia , united States

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This project explores the idea of creating a space for both painting and drawing set against an intense landscape of shale cliffs, forest and ponds.

Winters Studio
© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
Winters Studio
© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample

Overlooking the hills of the Taconic State Park, this isolated site is one of several free standing structures making up a compound for an artist and a curator/writer.

To create a space for both drawing and painting, in addition to providing for the amenities of storage, cooking, cleaning, and reading, posed the problem of how to achieve extreme openness in order to move freely between the mediums of painting and drawing.

Winters Studio
© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
Winters Studio
© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample

The design focuses on constructing an open space from painting to drawing uninterrupted by structure.

This dictated the design of the structural system and enabled a column free interior with moment frames on each end that would serve as external porches and viewing spaces between nature and the built environment.

Winters Studio
© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
Winters Studio
© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample

A uniform surface of zinc panels clad the facades and roof of the studio.

The structural innovation enables the ends to be completely open full height glass walls with expansive views towards the landscape.

An articulated lighting pattern skims over the ceiling creating an even glowing surface that is not harsh and provides soft atmospheric light for painting and drawing at night.

Winters Studio
© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
Winters Studio
© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
Winters Studio
© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample

A gray box sits centrally contains the kitchen, archives and washroom.

It opens and closes to reveal storage and archives, flat files, and an essential library.

Winters Studio
© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
Winters Studio
© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample

The panels slide smoothly by pulling on a custom milled door handles.

The concrete flooring is scored with a geometric pattern extending the lines from the parallelogram plan shape.A shale perimeter rings the studio creating a transition from inside to out registering the transition from the natural surroundings to the interior creative world.

Winters Studio
© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
Winters Studio
© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
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Winters Studio
© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
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© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
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© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
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© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample


Winters Studio
© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
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© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
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© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
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© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample


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© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
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© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
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© MOS - Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
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