Yardhouse is a modular, affordable, and high-quality prototype of a work space designed to be put together with collaborative procedures and thought out to be shared among architects, designers, and artists.

With a floor plan measuring 12 x 12 meters and a total surface area of 250 square meters distributed in two levels, the building contains sixteen 12-square-meter work spaces whose main feature is an absence of internal partitions, making for flexibility and ideal conditions for the creative exchange of ideas. These small studios of modular geometry are distributed around a double-height central atrium that serves as a circulation core and also as a communal space.

Everything fits in a building that is reminiscent of traditional granaries, as much because of its pitched roof as because of its robust structure of timber frames, which are clad inside with industrialized sandwich-type panels and outside with handmade polychromatic concrete scales...[+]