London-based structure and design follow Yellow Cloud Studio has accomplished Courtyard Home, the renovation of a Victorian terrace in Stoke Newington, creating vibrant residing areas that overlook an interior courtyard.
Yellow Cloud Studio fully overhauled the east London home, maintaining solely its ‘naked tectonic skeleton’ and introducing new finishes all through, alongside a newly created rear extension.
Courtyard Home sits on a protracted, slim lot, which led the studio to prioritize the introduction of pure mild and cross air flow, with giant home windows creating views from the entrance lounge to the rear backyard.
“Pure mild was wanted to achieve the center a part of the home, so the concept was born to maintain a part of the again backyard as a courtyard to sit down within the practical design of the house,” defined the follow.
“A Japanese cloud tree occupies the courtyard, which is framed by a three.7 meter lengthy fastened glass, making a dominant point of interest within the house,” he continued.
The rear extension homes a big kitchen and lighted eating space which overlooks each the courtyard and rear backyard by way of timber-framed glass doorways, alongside a built-in seating space.
Folding doorways from the kitchen enable the house to open out into the backyard, the place a raised concrete terrace with built-in seating and planting areas is partially sheltered by a roof part supported by grey brick partitions and columns.
Within the vibrant kitchen house, the palette of pale wooden, terrazzo ground and white paint is contrasted with darkish kitchen cupboards and a marble countertop.
Alongside the interiors, partitions are stretched for storage and picket shelving, forming a focus within the entrance room that conceals the door when closed and likewise strains up with a sequence of slatted shutters.
The primary ground structure has been largely retained, with intensive, virtually full-height home windows providing views of the backyard and interior courtyard from the master suite.
Above, a loft extension created a brand new walk-in closet that was additionally completed in a darker palette, with pink pigmented panels used to cowl the pitched ceiling above full-height black cupboards.
Yellow Cloud Studio was based by Eleni Soussoni and Romanos Tsomos in 2013 and relies in Hackney, East London.
The agency’s earlier initiatives embody an extension to a north London home to accommodate house supper golf equipment and an extension in Clapton with a playful half-arch window.
Photograph courtesy of Yellow Cloud Studio