The Little Art Studio by Chen + Suchart reflects desert landscape in Arizona
Architecture firm Chen + Suchart Studio has added an art studio to a Phoenix area home, cladding the new building in large sheets of reflective glass and silver-hued weathering steel.
The Little Art Studio is an extension to a contemporary home in Paradise Valley, a town in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The building was constructed over a dry wash, and sits adjacent to a courtyard with native landscaping and a gathering area with a fire pit.
In addition to creating a flexible space for a working artist, local studio Chen + Suchart Studio had two primary design goals:Â to minimise the addition's impact on the earth, and to distinguish it from the main residence, which is wrapped in stucco and glass.
"The Little Art Studio engages the circumstances of the site by deliberately establishing its own language that is at once a clear departure from the language of the existing main residence while maintaining respect for the site's desert landscape," the team said in a project description.
Roughly rectangular in plan, the studio has a steel-and-beam floor structure and composite concrete deck. The building sits atop six concrete caissons, enabling it to "float" over the wash and to reduce its disturbance to the earth. Elevating the building also helped created a distinct identity.
"By spanning over the wash, the design further distinguishes this new addition in contrast to the conventional slab-on-grade construction of the existing main residence,"...
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