The chosen painting is Jan Vermeer's Girl reading a letter at an open window. As the painting leaves reader imagination instead of directly providing fixed information, this space is designed to continue illustrating the hidden information. The narrative involved is the scene of how a gentle and quiet girl who lives on embroidering lead a life in her space. For meeting the requirement of an embroiderer, her studio needs to be located in a place with a nice surrounding. Thus the selected site is in a village with a sloping land and river surrounded, and the space spanning different heights on the slop as needed. The 3 main spaces were marked as her working studio, half of which located underground; an open deck for scenery viewing, which located on the ground; a room for taking rest, which located at upper level. In the design of the openings, the purposes of each room were taken into consideration. As the focus light makes an effective studio, a long and thin opening on the higher part of 2 walls and a few sky lights were placed for achieving the purpose. Moreover, the location of the studio (underground) makes an isolated space which prevents disturbance. Moving on from the stairs to the upper level, which is for scenery viewing and taking embroidering ideas, box windows on 2 sides of walls are like frames to fix the scenery at a point. However, the third texture wall with patten formed by a few square openings gives a different feeling. It was designed to reveal the specialness of an artist. As i tried to make this level as an open deck, the entrance door was designedwith glass. The third level of this space (labled as first level) is for her to take rest. It is not necessarily to have too much light for this room thus it is with only one relatively smaller opening than the other rooms. There are 2 entrances for this space in underground level and ground level each, with stairs to connect with ground.
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