Pottery Studio

Size doesn’t matter for this tiny building - a new studio in a garden for a professional artist potter - a client and friend of Alan Higgs Architects for 25 years. The little drum-shaped form is designed to contrast with the blocky, rectilinear forms of the adjacent building, and allow the external space to flow around it. The potter’s wheel is at the centre of the plan and sits directly under an oculus. A recess accommodates electric and gas kilns, and there is storage for materials and finished works. Vertical timber cladding, and a slate roof mould fully to the curving geometries.