Bäumler Forster Studio

This is a musicians' and writers' studio – twenty-seven and a half square metres, triangular, framed in timber and clad internally and externally in plywood. It was completed in February 2008. Located in the suburb of The Gap in Brisbane, it was built into a leftover corner of the backyard behind a small detached house. It addresses the backyard front-on. It is an urban artefact secreted into a super-abundant suburban garden setting. It has a formal presence and reveals the difference between the two plywood surfaces inside and out through occupation. It is assiduously craft-reductive, privileging buildability, affordability and material experience.