Camp O, by practice Maria Milans Studio, is a house-studio located In the middle of the Catskills’ preserved land, New York. The area is part of Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York distinguish by their forests and the great amount of water in the form of rivers, creeks and reservoirs.

Very tall oak, birch and maple trees depict the wild and changing beauty of these deciduous trees environments, flanking a small driveway that ends in a small-sloped clearing. This clearing was done during the winter of 1999 to donate firewood to the neighbors to help them get through the freezing winter.

The plot is an approximately 6 Hectare (15-Acre) site at an elevation of 777,4 meter (2,550 feet). The difficult access to the site favors the use of wood as the main building material by its abundance, low cost, lightness and ease of manipulation and transportation.

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Maria Milans del Bosch founded Maria Milans Studio (MMIS) in 2012, an international award-winning architecture and design firm based in New York and Madrid.

She studied her Bachelor and Master of Architecture at Escuela Técnica Superior de Madrid (ETSAM) and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University (GSAPP), in 2008 she joined Matthew Baird Architects where her work was broadly published, awarded by the AIA and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and at the 2012 Venice Biennale among others. Her professional practice concurrently develops with her research and teaching work at NJIT Hillier College of Architecture and Design where she is an adjunct professor directing Studio courses for architecture bachelors and masters students.
Published on: April 7, 2020
Cite: "Camp O: Contemporary Vernacular House & Studio by Maria Milans" METALOCUS. Accessed February 27, 2025
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/camp-o-contemporary-vernacular-house-studio-maria-milans> ISSN 1139-6415
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