Travis Ronaldson

Woodstock, Cape Town

Woodstock Studio Fit-Out

A working drawing studio in a former textile warehouse bay.

Design studio interior with a long timber drafting table and exposed brick walls

The finished bay: raised work platform, open shelving, north clerestory light.

The brief and the constraint

A two-person design practice took a 68 sqm bay in a Woodstock warehouse. Exposed brick, a north clerestory, and a floor that drops 90 mm across the width. They wanted a workshop, not an office: services visible, storage open, no ceiling grid.

Approach

Level only the work zone. A raised timber platform carries the long shared drafting table; the rest of the floor stays as found, slope and all.

Drawing set

Platform framing plan, electrical layout for task lighting, and a 1:5 detail of the pinboard wall where cork meets the brick return.

Materials

Birch ply for the platform and table, blackened steel for the shelving uprights, cork as the pin surface. Nothing sealed that did not need sealing.

Outcome

A single room that reads as a workshop. Drawings, samples and site photos live on the cork wall; the clerestory does the lighting work until mid-afternoon.

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Project list

Three jobs, drawn and built

Each entry below carries the brief, the constraint that shaped it, and the drawing set that went to site. Open a case to see the plans, sections and material notes behind the finished room.

Rear extension of a Victorian cottage with timber-framed glazing opening onto a small courtyard

Observatory Cottage Rear Extension

Opening a tight Victorian footprint to a north-facing courtyard

The brief asked for a kitchen, dining and reading room without losing the two front bedrooms or the heritage streetscape. The constraint was a 4.2 m deep site boundary and a mature fig tree that could not be moved. The drawing set includes existing and proposed plans, a section through the new roof junction and an axonometric of the joinery run. Timber is locally sourced saligna for the window frames, with a lime-washed brick pier holding the old wall line. The budget was held by keeping the wet core in place and spending on the glazing and the floor.

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Design studio interior with a long timber drafting table and exposed brick walls

Woodstock Studio Fit-Out

A working drawing studio in a former textile warehouse bay

The unit is a 68 sqm bay in a Woodstock warehouse with exposed brick, a north clerestory and a floor that slopes 90 mm across the width. The fit-out levels the work zone with a raised timber platform and leaves the rest of the floor as found. Drawings cover the platform framing, the electrical layout for task lighting and a detail of the pinboard wall. Materials are birch ply, blackened steel for the shelving and a cork pin surface. The client wanted the space to read as a workshop, not an office, so the services are left visible and the storage is open.

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Compact apartment interior with a full-height timber joinery wall and recessed desk

Sea Point Apartment Joinery

Storage, desk and sleeping alcove in a 52 sqm flat

The flat had three doors on one wall and no usable storage. The proposal replaces the partitions with a 6.4 m joinery wall in oak-veneered ply, with a recessed desk and a bed alcove that borrows light from the living room. The drawing set includes a full elevation, a plan at 1:20 and a section through the alcove soffit. Tile layout in the kitchen was kept to full modules to avoid cuts at the visible edge. The client is a remote worker who needed the desk to disappear at the end of the day, so the alcove has a sliding panel rather than a fixed screen.

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