British studio Tikari Works has accomplished an outbuilding for a south London residence that’s framed by a latticed timber roof construction and configured to weave round a Lebanese cedar tree.
Tikari Works crafted the undertaking, named A Room Round a Tree, to have a minimal affect on the woodland setting whereas accommodating a flexible inner area and adjoining terrace for the shopper’s household.
“The core idea of the design is to have fun the mature cedar tree that’s the focus of the backyard while creating a versatile area for our shopper’s rising household,” Tikari Works director Ty Tikari informed Dezeen.
“The timber beams are additional deep and stained black to create a meditative inner ambiance and convey the verdant greens of the backyard to the foreground,” he continued.
Desiring to create a dialogue with the panorama, the sting of the constructing was wrapped round surrounding tree branches and partially bounded by clear structural glazing.
“The curved type of the undertaking permits the constructing to have interaction with the language of the backyard because the constructing edge weaves between the pure options on the location,” Tikari defined.
“Internally, this creates a way of compression and enlargement that’s used to organise the constructing features with out the necessity for bodily boundaries.”
In keeping with the studio, A Room Round a Tree was constructed utilizing light-handed building methods to safeguard the vegetation, together with a low-impact “floating” ring beam and mini-pile basis system.
“The first driver for the format of the undertaking was to make sure that the constructing maintained a minimal distance of two metres to all bushes on the location, guaranteeing that the well being of the bushes can be undisturbed,” Tikari defined.
“This restriction mixed with this system and motion across the website helped to create the parti of the undertaking, which in flip knowledgeable the structural technique for touching the bottom flippantly.”
Internally, the studio built-in customized joinery, together with an oak kitchenette, cast-concrete sink and cellular storage unit to encourage future flexibility.
“The on a regular basis facets of the pavilion – the kitchen, toilet and storage items – are positioned inside sculptural kinds, enriching their prosaic nature with a extra soulful high quality,” Tikari stated.
“Available, off-the-shelf supplies, akin to corrugated cladding, blockwork and stained timber helped preserve the undertaking on price range, while the bespoke detailing of those supplies enrich their tactile nature and categorical our pleasure in making.”
London-based Tikari Works was established in 2015 by Nicola and Ty Tikari.
The studio has beforehand accomplished a block of flats in Peckham coated in rust-red tiles and {a partially} subterranean timber-screened dwelling in south London beforehand occupied by a storage.
The images is by Dan Glasser.
