Site Specific: A Façade for an Artist Studio

Ben Weir, Heerlen, Netherlands, 2023

BW A permanent installation to the guest artist’s studio in Greylight Projects, Heerlen in the Netherlands. Formerly part of a the entrance hall to a school, the studio required more enclosure and privacy, whilst still allowing daylight into the adjacent hallway.

A beam with a metal post spans the large opening, from which everything else either hangs or rests upon. The structure integrates two existing curved walls leftover from the building's Vrijeschool (Steiner school) history. The setback of the doors allows a mezzanine to be introduced within the studio itself. Finally, a small vitrine allows the ever-changing resident artists to display a small object to the hallway. 

Spruce, scaffold pole, polycarbonate, wood stain, 3600 x 3535 x 1020mm.

NOTES

Many thanks to Ben Weir for sharing this project with us.

Completion photographs © Ben Weir and Werner Mantz Lab.

The project is installed at Greylight Projects.

Posted 16th March 2023.