Artist Residency Farm8 / Studio Array. Image © Edmund Sumner
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https://www.archdaily.com/1033224/integrating-creative-spaces-designing-art-studio-additions-at-home
The home carries multiple identities as shelter, sanctuary, workplace, and stage for daily rituals. In recent years, its role has expanded in unprecedented ways. The pandemic, notably, coerced the home to act as a site of extraordinary adaptability to absorb functions once delegated to schools, offices, gyms, and studios. This transformation has shifted how we imagine domestic life, urging us to think of the home not simply as a backdrop for activity but as a dynamic framework for living, producing, and creating. Within this expanded understanding, artists find themselves asking a renewed question: how can the home allow the flexibility needed for creative practice?
The desire for a studio or dedicated workspace is not new, but its position and value within the contemporary home are evolving. No longer just a room equipped with tools, the artist’s studio becomes a negotiation between solitude and integration, between the rhythms of domestic life and the demands of creative production. This negotiation raises questions of scale, material, and orientation. Should the studio be folded into the corner of a living room, positioned on a rooftop, or detached as a retreat in the garden? Each choice reflects how creativity is situated in relation to everyday life, extending beyond purely practical concerns.
