Structure studio CAN has prolonged a terraced London home with a wooden and hemp palette and a big curved window that goals to redraw the connection to the backyard.
The Stoke Newington home, named Verdant Home in honor of its jungle-like outside area, was prolonged with a timber-framed facet and rear extension to satisfy the wants of a younger household.
The unique plan of Verdant Home included a protracted kitchen with a low ceiling and a “faulty” conservatory, which was too scorching in summer season, too chilly in winter, and minimize off the backyard from the primary home.
“The shoppers needed a extra interconnected floor flooring that was rather more targeted in direction of the backyard and allowed them to adapt the areas as they grew as a household, open plan however versatile,” CAN director Mat Barnes advised Dezeen .
CAN launched an open-plan residing, kitchen and eating space within the timber-framed extension, the place the ground is lowered 20cm from the remainder of the home to create a way of openness.
Its inside is dominated by pure supplies, together with an uncovered glue-laminated (glulam) wooden construction, which CAN mentioned aligns with the shopper's request for a “forest-inspired” palette.
The construction of the extension contains 85% glulam, whereas the outside is clad in corrugated hemp fiber panels designed to vary coloration and texture because it meets time. It’s coated with a roof planted with meadow.
The centerpiece of Verdant Home is its curved glass window overlooking the backyard, which references a Victorian store window. It’s meant to reconnect the house with its outside area after the previous conservatory had left them “untethered”.
“Many Victorian outlets used curved home windows on both facet of the central door, which allowed uninterrupted views into the store window when a buyer entered,” defined Barnes.
“Why not do it from the within out?”
The place of the window subsequent to the outsized glass door now offers the homeowners twin side views, that means they’ll see their backyard up shut and the north-west sky within the distance
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It was custom-built for the home and offered the workforce with a number of challenges, together with being giant sufficient for a powerful visible impression however sufficiently small to suit by the slim terraced home.
“As a result of it's such an uncommon merchandise and we discovered just one provider who would make it for us at a price that was cheap,” added Barnes.
So as to add flexibility to the open-plan format of Verdant Home, CAN launched full-height hemp curtains and Douglas fir shutters that permit the household to open and shut areas as their spatial wants change.
The guts of Verdant Home is now the light-filled kitchen, with a skylight supported by inexperienced bolted trusses. CAN additionally designed the cupboard fronts, made out of hewn oak planks and painted with wealthy linseed oil in darkish tones.
“The undertaking was about making a mushy but high-impact design that’s private to the shopper and celebrates pure supplies,” mentioned Barnes.
“Each a part of this house is made with intention, from the beams within the kitchen to the way in which supplies and textures come collectively to create an area that displays the shopper's tastes and the way in which they need to dwell.”
Barnes based CAN in 2016, having beforehand been an affiliate at Studio 54 Structure.
His first solo initiatives embrace a blue and white striped home extension and a renovation of his personal South London residence with a pretend Disneyland mountain.
Photograph by Rick Pushinsky.