The Turner studio is an addition of a yoga and pilates facility to a 1930’s vintage craftsman house. It is sited in the compressed space between the existing structure and the minimum allowable set-back requirements imposed by the municipal building code. The project attempts to confound the distinction between an addition that visually announces itself as something new, and an addition that attempts to camouflage itself by borrowing the vernacular of the original structure. In order to provide space for the studio, the project proposes a shed-like extension of the existing roof plane. As the roof of the house is extended, the existing house retains its material palette and craftsman sensibility, but also becomes less bungalow, dislodged from the conventions of its type so that the studio and house are synthesized in a new structure.

Nested underneath the extended roof, the studio program operates as a collection of discrete objects on a ground plane that has been split and shifted to accommodate minimum clearances. The resulting section is served ramp that grows and bulges as it turns corners and stitches together the demands of the new program. Traditional functions such as office and storage make use of the shifted ground plane to cannibalize additional space from tight fits against the shifting walls of the existing structure.