This self-initiated and self-funded project demonstrates Feilden Fowles’ ambition for the practice and capacity to see projects through regardless of scale and challenges. It also demonstrates our commitment to education projects and contributing to local communities.

The entire studio has been designed to embody the values of the practice, as a demonstration of a rational, highly articulated and low-cost structure that provides a model typology for contemporary work and education spaces. The completion of the studio marks the second phase of the Waterloo City Farm development.

An overgrown, neglected sliver of land on the south side of Westminster Bridge, in the London Borough of Lambeth, has been transformed into a collective home

The studio’s north lights reference the Royal Academy’s life drawing room, where artists have long relied on the clarity and consistency of north light. Our studio’s orientation aims to capture this calm, enduring environment that nurtures creativity, exploration, and dialogue in the daily rhythm of our work.

Designed as a demountable structure, the studio is built of a Douglas fir timber frame clad with corrugated Onduline bitumen sheets. The materials are redolent of agricultural building forms, reinterpreted for its actual purpose to house an emerging team of architects.

The columns have defined a 1830mm grid, equivalent to ¾ of a plywood sheet, which ensures an efficient use of materials and minimal cuts and wastage.

The long elevation facing south is articulated by steel T columns and floor to ceiling glazing providing uninterrupted views of the garden (designed by Dan Pearson Studio).