British studio Tikari Works has accomplished an annex for a south London residence that’s framed by a latticed timber roof construction and configured to weave round a Lebanese cedar.
Tikari Works designed the challenge, known as A Room Round a Tree, to have a minimal affect on the forest setting, whereas housing a flexible inside house and adjoining terrace for the consumer’s household.
“The essential design idea is to have fun the mature cedar, which is the focus of the backyard, whereas creating a versatile house for our consumer’s rising household,” Tikari Works director Ty Tikari instructed Dezeen.
“The wood beams are very deep and stained black to create a meditative inside environment and convey the inexperienced greenery of the backyard to the fore,” he continued.
Supposed to create a dialogue with the panorama, the sting of the constructing was wrapped across the surrounding tree branches and partially delimited by clear structural glazing.
“The curved type of the challenge permits the constructing to have interaction with the language of the backyard as the sting of the constructing weaves between the pure options of the location,” defined Tikari.
“Inside, this creates a way of compression and enlargement that’s used to arrange the capabilities of the constructing with out the necessity for bodily boundaries.”
In accordance with the studio, A Room Round a Tree was constructed utilizing light-hand development methods to guard vegetation, together with a low-impact “floating” ring beam and a mini-pile basis system.
“The primary driver for the structure of the challenge was to make sure that the constructing maintains a minimal distance of two meters from all timber on the location, guaranteeing that the well being of the timber will likely be undisturbed,” defined Tikari.
“This restriction, mixed with the schedule and motion across the website, helped create the design aspect, which in flip knowledgeable the structural technique for straightforward floor contact.”
Inside, the studio has built-in customized joinery, together with an oak kitchenette, a solid concrete sink and a cellular storage unit to encourage future flexibility.
“The on a regular basis points of the pavilion – kitchen, rest room and storage models – are positioned in sculptural varieties, enriching their prosaic nature with a extra soulful high quality,” stated Tikari.
“Off-the-shelf, available supplies akin to corrugated iron, blocks, and painted lumber helped hold the challenge on funds, whereas the customized particulars of those supplies enrich the tactile nature and specific our pleasure of constructing.”
Tikari Works, based mostly in London, was based in 2015 by Nicola and Ty Tikari.
The studio has beforehand accomplished a rust-red tiled block of flats in Peckham and underground timber-screened home in south London, beforehand occupied by a storage.
Photograph by Dan Glasser.