Structure studio Hyde + Hyde renovated a 19th-century Gothic Revival home in Oxford, reinterpreting its decorative fashion with an extension completed with ornamental metallic panels.
Swansea-based Hyde + Hyde have been commissioned to rework a run-down property within the conservation space of North Oxford’s Victorian suburbs into a recent household house set in a secluded backyard.
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To open up the beforehand compartmentalized interiors, he added a rear extension with a sequence of glazed residing areas. These are framed by ornamental bands of metal and bronze plates with the quatrefoil motif that gave the mission its title, Quatrefoil Home.
Whereas most of this extension extends the decrease floor flooring, an addition to the bottom flooring kitchen has been erected above a parking house above a sculptural concrete column with a tombstone-like form that references a Gothic arch reversed.
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“Impressed by the Gothic Revival fashion and language of the present 1870s home, the brand new modern intervention is an exploration and celebration of decoration,” defined Hyde + Hyde.
“The brand new addition visually communicates constructed that means by a sequence of trim strains and proportional relationships, expressed in metal channels and framed brick facades,” he continued.
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With the house freed up within the current dwelling by the extension, Hyde+Hyde was in a position to insert a four-story wood staircase into the middle of the constructing, uniting all its flooring in a single gesture round a sculptural gentle fixture.
The doorway to the house leads into an open corridor that instantly frames this staircase, which is flanked by a studying room and an workplace overlooking the road by massive home windows on the entrance of the home.
On the rear of the home, transferring into the brand new extension, the residing and eating areas are both aspect of a niche that overlooks the prolonged decrease floor flooring under. This may be crossed by a small bridge lined with a glass railing.
The decrease floor flooring accommodates a further bed room and quite a lot of leisure areas. These are related by full-height sliding glass doorways to the backyard, the place a paved patio has an out of doors cooking space.
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A metallic and concrete staircase leads from the backyard to the roof of the rear extension, the place a floor flooring terrace has been created alongside the kitchen and eating house.
“The kitchen and eating house are faraway from the present envelope to enrich a four-square plan and an open-plan floor flooring with three-height areas and layered horizontal spatial sequences,” defined the observe.
“Dissolving the notion of cameras [allows] for a extra related sense of life. Internally, a complete of 90 bespoke parts have been accomplished, together with a bridge, door handles, bespoke beds, furnishings and inside joinery,” he continued.
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5 different en-suite bedrooms are organized on the primary and second flooring of the home, within the footprint of the unique constructing.
Inside, each the present house and its new extensions are united by modern wooden, metallic and glass finishes.
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Hyde + Hyde was based by Kay and Kristian Hyde in California in 2006, earlier than the duo returned to Kristian’s native Wales.
The agency’s earlier tasks embrace a home on the Gower Peninsula in Wales, perched on a limestone cliff and fitted with full-height home windows to seize views of the encircling panorama, and a seaside home with a cedar-clad balcony.