The Ballance Street Studio

Designed by Shane Kingsbeer of Kingsbeer Architecture as a simple cube, however the construction is anything but simple.

Viewed from the road, the box-shaped workroom seems to float above the ground.

This in part due to the clean design and choice of materials, but also in the clever planning. Signage, a letterbox and fencing are all absent from the street frontage - and leave the studio’s clean unbroken lines to speak for themselves.

The studio facade is clad with Abodo’s thermally modified pine (a rapidly renewable and locally sourced eco-timber) using Vulcan Screening finished in Sioo:x natural wood coating.

This innovative finish means the timber will silver off over time so the studio blends effortlessly into its surrounds.