Environmental Credentials

The studio was built by Austrian company Holzbau Saurer – a company with long experience of modular wooden structures to extremely high degrees of accuracy and craftsmanship. The studio's modular wooden construction offers a number of advantages, not least the fact that the building is highly sustainable, even when transportation costs from the Austrian factory are taken into account.

The façade and flooring use 30 cubic metres of oak from the Bodensee region of Switzerland, coupled with 473 cubic metres of Austrian spruce in the beams, wall construction, ceiling and roof. Remarkably, this amount of spruce represents just 9 minutes growth in Austria’s extensive and highly managed forests. The extensive use of wood is coupled with other highly efficient environmental technologies, including a ‘green’ sedum roof, which helps the building integrate into the surrounding landscape and provides a high level of insulation, reducing energy requirements.