Mexican sculptor Pedro Reyes has built a bunker-like studio from prefabricated concrete and stone alongside his home in Coyoacán, Mexico City.
Reyes, who trained as an architect before becoming an artist, designed the extension to his home to be the main workplace for his studio.
"We prepared spaces for a wood shop, a metal shop, a loading dock, as well as a drawing studio with circular skylights, which provide even light, since we like to draw and work by hand in an old fashioned way, and minimise the use of computers," Reyes told Dezeen.

The studio was designed following the 2017 earthquake and needed to be built quickly, so Reyes chose to use prefabricated concrete panels, which gives the building its brutalist appearance.
"We had a window of opportunity to build the studio in a very short time because of permits, which was one of the reasons why we chose to use prefab elements," said Reyes. "Definitely, it resembles a work more of infrastructure or engineering than of architecture, which is one of the characteristics of brutalism."

The distinctive, curved prefabricated-concrete panels were designed to give the building a sculptural quality, as Reyes wanted the studio to appear as if it had been placed on the ground.

"I designed concrete slabs of different lengths which have a curvature both at the top and the bottom," explained Reyes.
"By doing a curvature at the bottom, I wanted to convey the feel of a more object-like ...