Irish studio Scullion Architects took visible cues from lengthy nation home galleries in its Rathdown design, a window-lined extension to a home in Terenure, Dublin.
The elongated extension comprises a spacious kitchen and eating space and opens up the home's current floor flooring dwelling areas, which have been beforehand “crowded and darkish”, Scullion Architects mentioned.
Its structure is modeled on an extended gallery, a spacious, corridor-like room lined with home windows usually present in conventional nation homes and used to attach areas whereas offering views to the surface.
“The prevailing home lacked any social coronary heart,” studio director Declan Scullion instructed Dezeen.
“Though the unique home had three beneficiant reception rooms on the bottom flooring, their distance from the kitchen and examine of the backyard meant that none lent themselves to on a regular basis use, and the household as an alternative tended to squeeze round an undersized eating room in kitchen,” he continued.
“The lengthy gallery was launched to encourage a extra social residence setting for the household and act as a conduit between the present floor flooring reception rooms, corridor and backyard.”
Externally, the Rathdown is outlined by deep inexperienced powder-coated aluminium, which is mixed with picket components in the identical shade.
In response to Scullion Architects, this materials palette refers back to the conservatories of a typical Irish home of the 1930s.
Internally, the extension is accessed by way of a cushty studying room, which connects to one of many current reception rooms by a set of steps.
“In layering the extra social studying, eating, kitchen space packages with the older extra static reception rooms, it’s hoped that this new room will encourage the dynamic coexistence of actions and elevated interplay and communication,” mentioned Scullion.
Rathdown's kitchen and eating room have warm-toned wooden cupboards and wall paneling, mixed with minimalist stone steps and flooring.
Pictured home windows line the garden-facing wall, capped by casement home windows to maximise the extension's entry to nature.
“A part of the position of the lengthy gallery was to attract the solar right into a northeast-facing kitchen for so long as potential through the day,” defined Scullion.
“Folded home windows at both finish of the lengthy room draw within the morning solar for longer because it runs from east to west, however most significantly it additionally enhances the texture of a book-blinking backyard side,” he continued.
“By extending to the facet on the west facet and elevating a crystal window alongside the west and south going through home windows to the entrance, this room receives solar for many of the day.”
In the direction of the Rathdown entrance, the extension has a stepped brick elevation, incorporating raised planters which assist to display the tall south-facing home windows, balancing stability and pure mild.
Scullion Architects is a Dublin-based studio established by Scullion in 2016. Its earlier initiatives embrace the renovation of a cottage with a corrugated metallic extension and a curved glass addition to a home referencing Victorian conservatories.
Pictures is by Johan Dehlin.