White and minimalist residing areas sit inside a uncooked exterior of uncooked brick partitions and galvanized metal openings at this east London floor ground residence extension designed by native follow Studio Hallett Ike.
Set in a Georgian home within the De Beauvoir space of Hackney, London and Oxford studio Hallett Ike was tasked with enhancing the flat’s connection to the south-facing rear backyard.
The extension, referred to as the DB Residence, left the entrance of the home largely unchanged, whereas including two new volumes clad in darkish brick on the again that open onto a stepped terrace.
Within the residence’s beforehand remoted kitchen, an inside opening results in the newly created eating room, which introduces views and pure mild deep into the plan via massive, skylight home windows.
“With a decent building value, the challenge adjusts and redefines the property by introducing two modest volumes that concurrently join and harmonize the looks and aesthetics,” defined the studio.
“By opening up the kitchen and visually linking it to the eating room, the ritual act of cooking is enhanced right into a second of sharing between these within the kitchen and people within the eating room,” he continued.
The lounge steps down into the extension, the place a eating space sits below uncovered wood beams framing a skylight, with a plywood paneled wall and a built-in bench offering further eating story seating.
A serving space sits within the opening to the adjoining kitchen, which has been reworked with all-white fixtures and cupboards, and on the other facet, the smaller extension quantity homes utility area.
Every of the three areas alongside the again of the home has an almost full-height pocket glass sliding door, chosen to maintain obstructions to the surface view to an absolute minimal.
These glass doorways are framed in deep reveals of uncooked galvanized metal, which counterpoint the darkish brick used for the outside of the extension and the backyard courtyard.
“The design responds to its context as a steadiness between the tough and heavy exterior in distinction to the nice and cozy and minimal inside aesthetic,” defined the studio.
“The junctions between these parts are highlighted by galvanized metal thresholds, which themselves are mild, sudden and superbly uncooked,” he continued.
Studio Hallet Ike was based by Madeleine Ike and Jonty Hallett in 2018.
The cupboard’s earlier initiatives embody one other extension in London that aimed to maximise a restricted area and funds and is clad in blackened larch planks.
Different latest De Beauvoir extensions embody a townhouse owned by a musician and furnishings designer.
Pictures is by Ståle Eriksen.