Reinterpreting the rural vernacular, this new home in the Cotswolds uses interlocking barn forms and a palette of local materials.
Taking as a starting point the elongated forms of two 30 metre-long, timber chicken sheds which previously occupied the site, the house is a play of traditional barn volumes which have been pushed and pulled to suit the needs of the client.
Inside, the key living spaces fan out around an internal patio, which acts as a focal point for the home. Clad in copper, the patio is a moment where both nature and light are introduced.
Detached two-storey villa with a main facade orientation to the south facing the garden, which faces residential rooms and large glazed areas. Towards the street there are the utility rooms of the house lighted by strip windows. Direct contact with the garden is located on the ground floor of the house with a glass-sliding opening, which opens to the terrace. The house is designed in a functionalist style, using contemporary modern materials and technologies. The roofs of the house are green, replacing the greenery that took the house out of the garden.
It’s all about the brick’ is how SPA future-proofed a garden apartment in a large Italianate semi-detached villa in North London. The clients wanted an enduring space to suit their growing family as their home forever. The answer was two-pronged: to remodel and retrofit the original and to expand into the mature garden, adding a true indoor-outdoor living.
Central to remodeling was providing a flexible space for extended family visits and creating generous amounts of dedicated storage. Although the living space still occupies the same square meterage, resourceful design put away any potential clutter and all building services. Dedicated storage rooms, located deep in the light-less corners of the flat, provide ample space for services, dry food and bulky items of storage. In the open-plan living areas, subtle spatial differences in the floor, wall and ceiling treatments create varried spaces that allow family members to pursue a range of activities within a sociable distance. A light-filled study-off-the-kitchen becomes an optional, sound-separated bedroom, as sliding doors spring out of a hidden wall-pockets and a built-in fold-down bed appears from a customised wall of joinery.
The significant refurbishment and reconfiguration of an East London top floor apartment to re-invigorate the lost soul of the building.
The existing apartment was in a state of disrepair accessed via a shared stairwell with offices below. The project ambition was to re-imagine the proportions, arrangement and flow of this cramped flat. We sought to rationalise the layout while retaining the intersecting load-bearing masonry walls that subdivided the space into equal quarters which, in turn, allowed us to define the four living functions of washing, dining, relaxing and sleeping. A level change and roof valley helped to demarcate these interconnected spaces and provide undulating height and rhythm which is designed to animate and unite the apartment.
Article source: Paul Cashin Architects and Design Engine
Situated just north of the village of Upham, near Winchester, is Woodcote House. Nestled amongst the rolling chalk hills of the South Downs National Park, this contemporary house replaces a series of brick buildings that had fallen into disrepair. After achieving permission at appeal, work started on the house in 2017 and took two years to build.
The Meadows is a Victorian property built in the 1870s as an old billiard hall used originally for the village’s choral society as a double-height hall. Over the years, the building had been cut and carved into a rabbit warren of rooms with low ceiling heights and a convoluted plan.
Our proposal was to open the home back up. Flooding the space with natural daylight, open plan living and making it our family home.
This previously run-down family home has been transformed into a bright dwelling with captivating design features for a young, growing family. Years of disrepair had left this house in dire need of modernisation.
The house required an extension to support modern living; Loud. Architecture & Interior Design extended to the rear and to the side to meet the neighbour’s extension and angled from the neighbour’s wall back to meet the house in a sympathetic way.
The newly designed house has many design features that include: secret doors, new materials, contemporary kitchen designs and internal windows.
KAMPUS is a new neighbourhood located at the former Manchester Metropolitan University campus in the heart of the city. Utilising the qualities of the existing built structures – Victorian brick canal-side warehouses and the 1964 concrete tower – presents the opportunity to develop at the city block scale, creating new connections and a new destination. A melting pot of buildings and spaces, KAMPUS will celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the city with respect to the historic quality of Canal Street.
Client/ Property Developer: Capital & Centric and Henry Boot Developments
Design Team: Mecanoo (design architect/landscape), Shed KM (architect of the listed canal warehouse buildings), Exterior Architecture (landscape architect for the new build), Chapman Taylor (delivery architect for the new build).
Programme: 533 apartments and leisure/retail spaces across five unique buildings, totalling 44,000 m2; public realm and gardens
LOM architecture and design collaborated with RocketSpace to create a brand new co-working space in Angel, north London as their first new facility outside San Francisco where alumni include Uber, Blippar and Spotify. The London campus, with flexible workspace for up to 1,500 people, is the result of a successful partnership with NatWest.
The new space includes a former underground bank vault, with the 1980s building stripped back to its original concrete frame, revealing the blast proof reinforced structure, coffered ceilings and brickwork. A utilitarian workplace design includes exposed services, clean lines, steel and concrete with accent colours. LOM also created bespoke wayfinding and environmental graphics.
WilkinsonEyre has completed an undergraduate village for the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology. The landscaped village of timber modular-housing pods, with communal amenities and a central social and learning hub, is based within the Dyson Malmesbury Campus in Wiltshire. As well as establishing a new typology in student accommodation, the project breaks ground in the design, masterplanning and precision engineering of truly modular prefabricated building technologies for rapid construction.
Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology is a new model of learning that integrates a higher education campus into the context of commercial industry, research and development. The village is where a new generation of engineering students will live while they work alongside the Dyson Global Engineering Team and study for an engineering degree. The pioneering approach to materials and construction, and fresh thinking on student wellbeing echoes the ethos of innovation that runs throughout the campus.
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