Native observe Platform 5 Architects have accomplished NW10 Home, a household dwelling situated on an infill web site in North London, with uncovered concrete interiors and a textured brick exterior.
Occupying a nook plot that was beforehand a builder’s yard, Platform 5 Architects designed the irregular, blocky type of the three-storey home in response to the planning constraints of the realm and the sight traces of neighboring buildings.
Centered round a concrete spiral staircase, the home’s areas increase to fill the triangular web site, overlooking a paved terrace that wraps across the jap edge.
“The triangular web site introduced a selected problem with its restricted entry and frontage,” Patrick Michell, companion at Platform 5 Architects, informed Dezeen.
“The type of the proposal needed to be rigorously thought of in perspective in order that the width of the home on the rear didn’t dominate the skinny entrance facade on the street view,” Michell added.
“I discover these anomalous websites of specific curiosity as they current a possibility for quirky, individualistic designs that enliven the road scene, making a counterpoint to their extra typical neighbours.”
A basement flooring with a “heat, cave-like character” comprises an workplace, walk-in closet and the en-suite master suite, lit by full-height sliding glass doorways that open onto a small sunken courtyard.
Downstairs, the dwelling, kitchen and eating areas overlook the backyard by way of full-height home windows and sliding glass doorways, whereas a smaller cozy space is tucked away to the rear.
Above, the primary flooring comprises a household toilet and two kids’s bedrooms, going through the backyard under.
All through, the house’s concrete construction has been left uncovered, softened by wooden floors and wooden paneling areas within the dwelling and bed room areas, and contrasted with metallic accents, together with gold balustrades and metal worktops.
Within the loos, a geometrical sample of monochromatic sq. and triangular tiles covers the partitions and flooring and is echoed within the flooring end of the doorway corridor.
“The consumer needed a daring materials palette to create a provocative setting for his assortment of vintage artwork, furnishings and lighting,” defined Michell.
“The non-angular type of the positioning and home was suited to a concrete body and this was left uncovered, defining the cellular volumes of the home as you progress from entrance to again,” he continued.
Textured pale grey brick was used to complete the outside, chosen to each reference and subtly distinction with the crimson brick end of the encircling Edwardian homes.
Platform 5 Architects was based in London in 2006 by Patrick Michell. Earlier initiatives by the observe embrace a home overlooking a lagoon within the Norfolk Broads, with pitched roofs and shingle cladding to reference the realm’s boat sheds.
The studio additionally used metal inside an angular home extension in Hackney, London.
Photograph by Alan Williams.