The polycarbonate-lined Inexperienced Home that structure studio Hayhurst & Co slotted into a decent web site in London has been named the RIBA’s Home of the Yr for 2023.
Changing an present dwelling in an alleyway in Tottenham, the plant and light-filled residence is modelled on a riad – a sort of conventional Moroccan home constructed round a central courtyard.
It was hailed by the jury of this yr’s RIBA Home of the Yr prize as “a real oasis throughout the metropolis”.
“Inexperienced Home, affectionately generally known as the ‘Tottenham Riad’, is a real oasis throughout the metropolis,” mentioned jury chair Dido Milne, who can be director of Eton studio CSK Architects.
“It’s each ethereal and cosy, daring but respectful of its neighbours. Your eye is concurrently drawn upwards to open sky and down and out throughout the lounge to verdant greenery,” she continued.
The Home of the Yr prize is awarded yearly by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to one of the best one-off, architect-designed home within the UK.
Milne added that Inexperienced Home was additionally chosen because the 2023 winner for the purchasers’ and studio’s joint ambition to “ship a very sustainable dwelling”, which “is obvious in the entire design selections and detailing” regardless of a decent price range.
“Nowhere do you are feeling the location or price range was restricted,” she defined. “It feels each luxurious, homely, deeply personal and enjoyable. It is a unprecedented extraordinary home and a outstanding collaboration.”
Designed for a rising household, Inexperienced Home includes 5 bedrooms organized round a skylit atrium. With views of gardens and a roof terrace, it’s designed to maximise their connection to the skin and entry to nature.
Standout particulars embrace the sliding polycarbonate screens throughout the outside, which allow the household to regulate each the degrees of privateness and air flow.
Its materials palette contains uncovered cross-laminated timber (CLT) partitions, reclaimed concrete blocks and recycled cork rubber flooring, whereas air-source warmth pumps and photo voltaic panels are used for power.
Inexperienced Home got here out high in a longlist of 20, whittled right down to a shortlist of six that included Cowshed by David Kohn Architects – the studio that received final yr’s RIBA Home of the Yr.
Hundred Acre Wooden by Denizen Works, Fabricated from Sand by Studio Weave, Center Avenue by Rural Workplace and Saltmarsh Home by Niall McLaughlin Architects had been additionally shortlisted.
This yr’s jury was made up of Milne alongside the co-founder of the structure studio Coppin Dockray Architects, Bev Dockray, the co-founder of the structure studio Al-Jawad Pike, Jessam Al-Jawad, and the co-founder of design-led property agent The Trendy Home, Albert Hill.
“Constructed on a really tight price range, this beneficiant five-bedroom household dwelling within the Clyde Circus Conservation Space of Tottenham is an inspiring instance of what could be achieved with a artistic and bold strategy to design,” learn their quotation.
Earlier winners of the RIBA Home of the Yr award embrace Home on the Hill by Alison Brooks Architects and Caring Wooden by architects James Macdonald Wright and Niall Maxwell.
The pictures is by Kilian O’Sullivan.
