Instead of a single design at one location, six sites across the Fogo Island were chosen to host a portion of Fogo Island Art’s work spaces. The six studios range in size from two hundred square feet to twelve hundred square feet (twenty to two hundred square meters) in order to accommodate the diverse range of artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, curators, designers, and thinkers participating in the residency program. The siting of the studios adjacent to the communities of Deep Bay, Shoal Bay, Joe Batt’s Arm, Fogo, Little Seldom and Tilting allows the artists to live within the various communities and interact, on a daily basis, with the local residents. In all six studios, the intent was to sample and allude to local construction techniques: the spruce wood shell that cites the clapboard of the houses; the stilt construction of Newfoundland’s waterfront fishing sheds; the proportions of the volumes and skewed frames, particularly in the case of the smaller studios. All six studios are one hundred per cent off the grid with no connection to public services: composing toilets, solar panels for electricity, wood stoves for heat, and in the Long Studio rainwater is collected from the roof and stored in tanks in the concealed storage rooms to provide water for the shower and small kitchen. The environmental impact of the construction was minimized by the use of local materials, which were largely transported to remote building sites by hand or by skidoo over the snow in the winter months to prevent or reduce damage to delicate lichens, moss and berries.