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Sanjay Gangal
Sanjay Gangal is the President of IBSystems, the parent company of AECCafe.com, MCADCafe, EDACafe.Com, GISCafe.Com, and ShareCG.Com. Artist Studio/Residence in Woodstock, New York by Gans studioJuly 3rd, 2015 by Sanjay Gangal
Article source: Gans studio The studio residence is a free-standing building that completes an ensemble of experience and use in relation to a pre-existing house and a landscape. The new building contains a small drawing studio, workroom and kiln tucked beneath a library and a bedroom suite that overlook a double height sculpture space. It connects to the pre-existing house via two bridges: an upper bridge that extends from the living room to a new roof garden floating before the Catskills; and a lower bridge that ties the studio back into the hillside.  Image Courtesy © Andrew Rugge of Arch Photo
 Image Courtesy © Andrew Rugge of Arch Photo The studio is sited on the north face of a steep hill facing the mountains, which presents both magnificent views and also environmental challenges. To manage the heavy rain and runoff down the slope, the studio is raised on concrete pilotis and has an extensive green roof. This roof, along with the ceiling height, clerestory cross ventilation and fans, mitigate the climactic extremes of Woodstock to the degree that the building is heated only by a radiant floor and cooled only by the fans- with no additional air conditioning. “Gargoyle” gutter spouts send excess water into landscape and gravel swales. A new retaining wall of stones gathered from the site directs the water flow and defines the change in elevation between house and studio.  Image Courtesy © Andrew Rugge of Arch Photo This siting also producesmultiple entry sequences and movementthrough the building to the larger site. There are distinct paths for family, studio workers, and visitors through its section. The ramp continues the sense of the hillside road to the doorway of the large sculpture studio and also accommodates the movement of heavy work. Guests enter the studio from its upper level via the bridge connectingto the hillside patio and an internal stair. Family and friends access the roof garden from the upper bridge that connects to the living room of the pre-existing house.  Image Courtesy © Andrew Rugge of Arch Photo Even the inwardly focused studios with their de rigeurexpanses of white wall and clerestory windows provide connections to the site. Mirrors fill the gaps between the windows of the clerestory in order to bounce the light and produce an even glow throughout the day,and also to create a continuous image of treetops – some of which are mere reflections of the woods opposite. In the large studio, the one vertical corner window sets up a long diagonal view to the mountains from the point at which one entersacross the room. In the small drawing room, square windows just a few feet from the retaining wall offer a compressed, almostmicroscopic study of the rock of the site.The Shechet studio residence is two simultaneous projects: a taut environmental and spatial envelope for the creation of very large and very small art, and a sequence of built thresholds in relation to a landscape.  Image Courtesy © Andrew Rugge of Arch Photo What were you asked to do by the client? The client requested a sculpture and drawing studio with guest quarters in proximity to her house in the Catskills that would accommodate a variety of scales of work.  Image Courtesy © Andrew Rugge of Arch Photo What were the agreed upon goals of the project? The primary goals related to the performance of the building as a studio environment. Additionally, the client needed to host studio visits from perspective clients and gallerists, and to photograph her sculpture in situ. The client made clear that the architecture was to be a pragmatic instrument to serve her creative work. It was not to require maintenance inside or out; it was to be long lasting; it was not to exceed her budget of approximately $150 a square foot. Therefore, sustainability while a goal; had to be conceived in relation to budget.  Image Courtesy © Andrew Rugge of Arch Photo A secondary set of goals related to the building as an extension of her home environment. It had to complete and give back to the existing house in someway.  Image Courtesy © Andrew Rugge of Arch Photo Finally, the building needed to provide a guest suite suitable for a visiting artist or family guest that did not feel subservient to the workspace.  Image Courtesy © Andrew Rugge of Arch Photo  Image Courtesy © Andrew Rugge of Arch Photo  Image Courtesy © Gans studio  Image Courtesy © Gans studio  Image Courtesy © Gans studio  Image Courtesy © Gans studio
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