What

Two artist’s studios.

Why

Architecture as Haiku.

How

The perfect home - no matter its size - contains nothing more and nothing less than the entire universe. Two different studio spaces, carved within identical volumes, provide us the opportunity to show what such perfection might look like.

The black studio accretes around a cube volume. A bronze ceiling, midnight green brick walls, a brown ebony floor and black lacquered screens, viewed by daylight from a mahogany framed window that opens a stage where the players — objects and people — become the focal points of the space, the architecture disappearing into the background. A series of utility spaces - kitchen, bedroom and bathroom - orbit around the cube.

The white studio contains all spaces of a home in one, not in an open-plan fashion, but in a theatre-like temporal dimension. Black lacquered walls move to turn the single volume in turn into a kitchen, a dressing room or a living room. A ladder and a staircase lead the way to a library and a bedroom which, when inhabited, contain the whole space, as a tree-house contains the whole forest.