The Drawing Shed
a self-built garden studio
The Drawing Shed is a timber-framed home office studio in South London, designed and built by the ByOthers team during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Photography by Lorenzo Zandri.
“we needed a space for the studio, so we thought why not build one and examine the process as a whole, from design to construction”
The building is conceived as a series of stepping blocks for different functions: work, meeting, utilities.
A ridgeline steps from corner to corner, creating a playful, undulating roof which is expressed internally as well as in the external cladding.
“seeking to reduce embodied carbon, we took a zero-concrete approach as a starting point”
The studio is constructed from lightweight timber and sits on a timber raft built on screw pile foundations that were installed manually and mitigate the need for any concrete in strip foundations.