A band of limestone separates outdated and new at Fohlenweg, a home in Berlin that London studio O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects created utilizing the partitions of an present bungalow.
The three-storey household dwelling was developed from a single-storey home on the sting of Grunewald Forest and incorporates a pale brick exterior divided by the limestone band.
Previous to the studio’s intervention, the bungalow, which was constructed as military housing throughout world battle two, featured a low roof and compartmentalised interiors.
Aiming to open up the home, O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects eliminated the pitched roof and added a two-storey quantity to the partitions of the present construction. To focus on the connection between the outdated and new, a limestone band wraps the highest of the present floor ground.
“The household had lived in the home – a single-storey with a basement, a low-pitched hipped roof and a cellularised inside – for fifteen years previous to the work,” stated studio founder Amalia Skoufoglou.
“On our quest to maintain and reuse the construction as a lot as potential, the basement was stored intact with minor structural alterations, the bottom ground load-bearing partitions have been stored and prolonged upwards to create a primary ground,” she advised Dezeen.
Fohlenweg is designed to have a strong look, achieved with a blocky type that’s clad in bricks with a impartial lime-mortar coating. Its construction is made out of mass timber.
“A lot thought went into the selection of supplies and specification, testing completely different textures and mixtures of masonry components looking for to make sturdy surfaces that seem heavy, final lengthy and require little upkeep over time, weathering naturally, taking the patina of the encompassing woods,” stated O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects.
Recessed barely into the house’s predominant footprint, Fohlenweg’s entrance is bordered by limestone slabs that stretch from the bigger limestone band.
The lined porch space invitations company into the house by way of a glass entrance door framed with warm-toned wooden, which sits between two floor-to-ceiling home windows set throughout the similar frames.
Past the entrance door is a double-height entrance corridor with a timber-lined stairwell topped with a skylight to attach the flooring of the house.
“We envisaged life rotating round this central node on the higher flooring that each connects and permits one to be alone to pursue completely different actions,” stated Skoufoglou.
On the bottom ground, a front room with outside entry sits to at least one facet of the double-height corridor.
In the meantime a kitchen and eating area extends from the opposite finish of the circulation area, connecting to a further front room.
The kitchen is fitted with green-painted timber cabinets throughout one wall, in addition to a central island topped with a green-marble countertop.
Three first-floor bedrooms wrap across the double-height void, whereas the highest ground of the house incorporates a yoga room, examine and play room. Throughout the partitions of every room, the house’s mass-timber construction is left uncovered.
“The higher quantity utilises a low-carbon mass timber construction, primarily fabricated off-site and introduced as panelled models, full with layers of breathable wooden fibre insulation that achieved a fast set up time of two weeks,” stated O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects.
Different current residential initiatives by O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects embrace a red-stone extension to a London terrace and a house with minimal wood-lined interiors and a hidden roof terrace.
The pictures is by Ståle Eriksen.
