Painting Studio This building is set into a hillside along the Hudson River, and serves as a weekend retreat for a New York-based artist. Spatial transformations of a typical gable-roofed section create a tall-ceilinged studio space with white walls and warm heart pine flooring. The landscape serves a source of inspiration and natural light, and a variety of apertures connect the studio to its surroundings. An over-scaled north-facing window infuses the space with calm, even light. East-facing double doors open the studio to the wooded and stony landscape beyond. A deeply-recessed dormer window on the south side provides a muted accent of sunlight which traverses the floor of the studio during the course of the day. A small skylight captures intense light from the southwest in a deep angled well above the studio’s work sink. The crisply-detailed exterior of the studio is clad in white cedar and lead-coated copper, materials which will weather and soften with time, reinforcing the building’s connection with the landscape. View this project