The Drawing Shed is a meticulously crafted architectural office for London studio ByOthers, hand-built in a back garden
The Drawing Shed is the new architectural office for ByOthers, a studio set up by Richard Key in 2020 and now set at the far end of a long, narrow south London garden. The project was largely self-built, designed and devised so that all the necessary components could be carried through the narrow hallway of the Victorian terrace – there was no separate garden access.Key believes that architecture should be steeped in practicality.
Above ground, the studio is formed from three heavily insulated timber boxes, clad in 100 individual and unique Corten steel ‘trays’, slender laser cut panels that are affixed to the structure with a proprietary fixing system. The location of every single panel was determined by a custom-created code system, developed directly from the original 3D model and etched into the metal.
The structural ceiling with its deep diagonal ribs adds to the feeling of warmth created by layers of sheep’s wool insulation and surface finishes of clay plaster. The plan steps back as the building reaches the end of the garden, with windows on the side elevation maximising the amount of daylight the little studio receives.
All ByOthers projects share the same ethos, that of working closely with the client to maximise the value they get from their project, whether monetary, personal or spatial. ‘Architects have quite a responsibility to help their clients reach ambitious goals,’ he says, adding slightly mischievously, ‘We pour petrol on that optimism – from a small shed in Peckham we can do anything.’
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