The Garden Studio – A Benefit For The Whole Family
Close your eyes and step into your new room in the garden: nothing more than a glass and timber cube placed in the middle of nature. What you see inside is a mixture of interior and exterior rendered possible by large areas of glass that blur the line between indoors and outdoors. An almost unreal transparency like a passage between two worlds. Your world and the world of nature. Both miniaturized in the garden building (your world) and the garden (the world of nature).
The various stages of history saw man and nature either in opposition or in harmonious union. The contemporary alienating urban landscape made man look for a peaceful relationship with mother nature. Their reconciliation takes place in the garden studio.
Through their various functions, garden studios are a benefit for the entire family. If ascribed the function of office, then they relieve you from the stress of working in your kitchen or your living. And they exempt your family from the sight of your work process and render them the privacy of family life. If turned into a games room, it is a refuge for children whose noise is thus isolated, or your little pleasure dome.
Other suggested uses of a garden studio are photographic or artist studio, consulting room or even laboratory. These uses are related to work. Given that they inspire the idea of tranquility and rest, they can be garden room, guest room, reading room, home cinema or sauna. If our mind is set for play and entertainment then we can switch garden studios into games room, pool house, TV room, music room, recording studio or gym.
The choice of materials is a subtle play between old and new, between timber – for eco-friendliness and beauty – and glass – which optimizes light and brings nature inside. Glass for doors and windows, and for windows which are doors and vice-versa, which slide and fold. Original alternations and transitions of materials, the roof as if suspended over the unreality of the glass walls. Jocularity is the underlying idea behind the concept of the glasshouse. Everything is an architectural game: the materials, the shapes, the configuration which can be reconfigured, the inside and the outside, movement and immobility.
