Greenwood Artist’s Studio Enlargement

This Greenwood Heights vertical enlargement to an existing corner garage structure engages in a dialogue between the existing brick row house and the new artist’s studio and captures views to the surrounding tree canopy of Greenwood Cemetery. The central stair spine, clad in translucent polycarbonate walls and floating concrete steps, transitions between the living / bedroom areas within the existing structure to the enlargement program of artist’s studios, a 3rd-floor study / ‘tree’ lounge, and rooftop terrace. The detailing of the enlargement utilizes a rain-screen system of fiber-cement panels that vary slightly in color to evoke the scale and colorful clapboard siding of the adjacent neighborhood while providing a contrast to the existing brick rowhouse, separated by an angled polycarbonate canopy that encloses the stair. The panels form a mitered frame to capture the main studio window and are ‘stitched’ at the corners to emphasize the lightness of the material.