Sutherland & Co has transformed a skinny post war building in North Berwick, Scotland, into its own studio with sliding spruce panels lit by a rooflight.
The studio is located on a tight plot of land squeezed between two shops on North Berwick High Street. It sits on what was once a narrow lane ? known as a wynd ? that ran from the town's High Street down to its West Bay.
As a result the building has a very narrow but deep plan. It measures little more than 3.5 metres wide, while extending to a depth of 45 metres.

Sutherland & Co explained that after being gutted by a fire in the 1960s, the building had undergone incremental adhoc alterations that left "little of value".
For example, on the first floor the architects removed a poorly placed fire escape that had been inserted in the 1960s, but had been made redundant by the introduction of a sprinkler system.
Across the ceiling, the timber battens conceal sliding door tracks and lighting, as well as mastering the ceiling panel joints. A rooflight was inserted into the centre of the narrow space to bring daylight into the heart of the deep plan.
"The redevelopment was as much an exercise in subtraction as in addition, removing accumulated layers of past development," Sutherland & Co explained, adding that the project was effectively self-built through a parallel development company.

Formed in 2011 by Robin Sutherland, the firm has also completed a gabled extension to a cottage in the Sco...