A minimal materials palette helps outline this glazed extension, which London studio DHaus has added to the again of a home in Hertfordshire, UK.
Designed to assist join the house to its backyard, the extension was designed to show a home that suffered from darkish and small areas right into a light-filled house with glass partitions that body views of nature.
The addition contains a largely glazed extension in addition to a separate studio, which sits on the finish of the backyard and accommodates a house gymnasium.
“The basic idea was to border the tree and backyard with a brand new flush kitchen ground that was the identical peak because the backyard degree,” DHaus co-director David Ben-Grunberg advised Dezeen. “We had been interested by creating heavy sculptural kinds in a restricted materials palette with three foremost parts of concrete, timber and glass.”
Related to the remainder of the house by a set of wood stairs that run alongside a curving white panelled wall, the extension homes a kitchen and eating space that replaces the house’s earlier kitchen, which was darkish and lacked house.
To reinforce its connection to the backyard, DHaus dropped the extension by one metre to position the brand new house on the identical degree because the again backyard.
“The prevailing kitchen was darkish and never giant sufficient for a eating house. we wished to create a light-filled house with a direct hyperlink to the outside,” stated Ben-Grunberg.
“The prevailing rear of the home was lower off from the backyard as the principle home was set one metre larger than the backyard,” he continued. “We dropped the completed ground degree to the backyard as the prevailing home was set a lot larger than the backyard making a disconnect between the 2.”
Aiming to create a extra spacious zone in the home and invite pure gentle into its inside, the studio contained the extension inside glass partitions, conserving timber and concrete parts to a minimal and utilizing frameless glass the place doable to supply uninterrupted views of the backyard exterior.
“We wished to border views of the sky with a window field extra akin to sculpture, to border the gorgeous east-facing backyard and the big Birch Tree,” stated Ben-Grunberg.
Other than the big parts of glazing, accents of timber and concrete function all through the extra house, together with a low concrete datum that runs across the border of the extension and doubles as a bench within the eating space.
A concrete wall was constructed at one aspect of the facade, which runs as much as the gate marking the sting of the positioning. To offer the house a uncooked really feel, a concrete ground extends from the extension’s inside into the house exterior, creating an out of doors terrace that borders the backyard.
Inside, Douglas Fir timber was used for as lots of the parts as doable, together with the joinery, kitchen doorways and uncovered beams, which stretch alongside the size of the ceiling, interrupted by a skylight that provides further pure lighting.
A sequence of Douglas-Fir furnishings topped with concrete worktops had been organized all through the house, providing areas for eating and cooking in addition to informal seating areas.
In addition to the extension, DHaus added a separate studio constructing to the top of the backyard, which homes a gymnasium. Designed to mirror the design of the extension, the backyard studio takes cues from the neighbouring construction’s materials palette whereas that includes uncooked finishes that give the constructing a extra unfinished character.
“The gymnasium was designed to reflect the language of the bigger home extension with a uncooked uncovered palette of blockwork and uncovered timber ceilings and divulges,” stated Ben-Grunberg.
“With the twist being to be as uncooked and uncovered as doable, the interior end is simply uncooked concrete blockwork, and we really feel it really works properly for a gymnasium house.”
Different extensions that use giant parts of glazing to brighten present houses embrace an all-marble extension that options shiny white surfaces and glass doorways and a glass extension that refreshes a century-old cabin within the Czech Republic.
The images is by Nick Dearden.
