Structure studio Bureau de Change has used concrete to playfully mimic motifs drawn from surrounding Thirties brick housing at Solid Home in south London.
Situated on a suburban road in Clapham, the house is meant as a “up to date interpretation” of the encircling massive red-brick homes which have gable roofs, bay home windows and lined porches.
Completed in a mixture of brickwork and concrete, the 4 storeys of the house are staggered upwards and set atop a basement degree and sunken concrete patio.
“The doorway elevation is sensitively designed in order that the home sits discreetly amongst its heritage neighbours, playfully responding to the established rhythm of the road,” defined Bureau de Change.
“The rear facade is bolder in its design, introduced as a cascading sequence of tiered cubic volumes which undertaking out into the backyard and a sunken patio,” the studio continued.
At Solid Home’s entrance, the ground-level facade, porch and bay home windows are fashioned from concrete forged with an interlocking brick sample within the corners that mirror the brickwork above.
The graceful, pale end of the concrete was achieved through the use of a excessive quantity of floor granulated blast-furnace slag, which the studio mentioned additionally acts as a cement substitute and reduces the quantity of embodied carbon dioxide.
Inside, Solid Home is organised round a central suspended staircase with vivid blue balustrades, creating a focus that hyperlinks every degree of the house.
Within the basement, a lounge and video games room open onto a large concrete staircase by way of sliding glass doorways, which leads as much as a patio and garden above.
The bottom flooring dwelling, eating and kitchen house initiatives out into the backyard inside a rectilinear concrete kind. It’s the first of three comparable volumes that step up the constructing’s rear facade, step by step lowering in measurement.
“The inset brick element gives the look that the concrete volumes have been pushed into an current facade, making a distinction between lively and passive volumes, which emphasises the volumetric gesture,” mentioned Bureau de Change.
Above, 5 bedrooms and three bogs are organised throughout the higher two storeys, with the rooms in the back of the house benefitting from full-height home windows within the projecting concrete types.
Bureau de Change is a London structure studio based by Katerina Dionysopoulou and Billy Mavropoulos in 2012.
Its different latest initiatives embody the remodelling of a Victorian terrace in south London and the inside design of a mixed-use improvement in an artwork deco constructing in Fitzrovia.
The pictures is by Gilbert McCarragher.
