EBBA Architects have accomplished a home extension in East London that mixes Brutalist-style supplies with particulars impressed by a basic Roman villa.
The mission, known as Solid Home, is a rear extension of a terraced Victorian home, creating an prolonged room incorporating a kitchen, eating house and conservatory.
EBBA’s design options quite a lot of distinct particulars, together with brown pigmented concrete surfaces, wooden paneled home windows, a vaulted ceiling and a wall of climbing vegetation.
The intention was to mix the extremely textured utilitarian supplies typical of Brutalist structure with a extra basic formal association.
“We began with two photographs in thoughts,” mentioned architect Benni Allan, founding father of the London-based studio.
“One was of a backyard framed by a closely sculpted inside and the opposite was of a central house in a Roman villa, just like Jørn Utzon’s Can Lis,” he advised Dezeen, referring to a well-known summer season home from the 1970s in Mallorca.
“The ambition was to have the ability to use sincere supplies with easy particulars as a solution to stretch the shopper’s funds.”
Solid Home belongs to a younger couple with a new child and a pet dachshund.
The brand new structure goals to offer them with sensible areas that can be utilized in numerous methods, for internet hosting visitors, working from residence or downtime.
Modifications in ceiling peak and flooring degree subtly divide three areas.
The kitchen is extra intimate with a vaulted ceiling above, whereas the adjoining eating house is extra beneficiant with a skylight bringing in loads of pure gentle from above.
Three steps down is a versatile house on the identical degree because the backyard. A big pivoting glass door offers entry to the terrace past.
“The structure was meant to create little pockets the place one can nestle,” Allan mentioned.
The title Solid Home refers back to the subtly brown concrete parts, which the architect mentioned have been constructed utilizing a pigmented eco-cement.
Uncovered each internally and externally, these easy columns give the construction a way of solidity.
Comparable earth tones characteristic elsewhere within the stained wooden joinery, brick flooring, clay plaster wall finishes and a cork wall.
“We wished to make use of supplies that might add heat to the inside,” Allan mentioned.
“The orientation of the home permits the solar to flood the extension in any respect hours of the day, which helps the supplies to seize the sunshine and alter all through the day.”
EBBA is a newly established observe with current tasks together with a warehouse flat and the Constructing Expertise College in London’s Olympic Park.
Solid Home continues the studio’s ethos of “discovering methods to do extra with much less.” The mission additionally concerned renovating the remainder of the home.
The extension is accomplished with an addition of its homeowners, one in every of whom works as an inside design stylist. The couple put in a wire mesh that criss-crosses a wall, offering a help system for climbing vegetation.
“They’re each eager gardeners and large believers in nature all through the home,” added Allan. “It is a completion they have been engaged on since they moved in.”
Photograph by Nick Dearden.