Architectural Marvel Unveiled: Cabinet Fanny Noël Diogo Lopes Crafts the Ultimate Artist's Haven

The project of a studio for an artist is located in Geneva's garden periphery, surrounded by dense vegetation and picturesque architecture. Its atmosphere changes with the seasons, from transparent in Winter to colourful in Autumn and Spring, and shaded in Summer. The new studio is envisioned as a garden gallery, close to the main house where the artist lives, but detached enough to be immersed in the garden's natural elements. The plan is designed to provide a spatial sequence from the domestic space to the artist's office through an underground connection, creating a wandering experience.

The volume is strategically placed in the corner of the plot, as close to its two limits as possible. Its curved third side encloses the garden's central space, amplifying its length and creating a horizontal order that contrasts with the existing house's verticality. The quarter circle form suggests a new circular path that connects the entrance gate with the domestic backrooms, exploring the full depth of the site. This multiplication of interior and exterior paths gives the feeling of a larger area. The interior is designed to be an observatory of the movement of light and the rhythm of the seasons, themes that are closely related to the artist's work. Windows of varying sizes, depths, and transparencies capture the changing colours and shadows of the surrounding lush vegetation. At times, they direct the gaze towards meaningful moments - in the office, two eyes look at a specific tree, part of the artist's universe.

The different walls inside the studio loosely shift to converge at the centre of the curve, making the open storage rooms part of the space. Its silhouette, recalling the shed type, speaks to its use, offering a northern light that balances the whole. A white coat on the plywood and a bright terrazzo bring nuances to the traditional "white box". The timber veins unfold throughout the panel's surface, underlining its bent spatiality. On the outside, the emblematic silhouette echoes the aggregations of roofs of the main house and its figurative character. Gable facades, with unique compositions, contrast with the repetitive vertical lines of the bay window. The wooden boards painted in dark green melt into the vegetation, creating a field where floating metallic frames and roofs emerge as suspended figures in the garden.