Worn surfaces are intentionally left uncovered inside Putney Riverside, a Victorian terrace in London that native studio VATRAA prolonged with a terracotta-coloured concrete extension.
Positioned in a conservation space alongside the River Thames in Putney, the terraced home has been renovated for a Sri Lankan couple who bought it after it had sat untouched for a few years.
Its current construction suffered extreme injury and, regardless of not being heritage-protected, VATRAA approached its renovation as if it have been, revealing and repairing its authentic components and complementing them with fashionable additions.
“Being in a nasty state, the previous home misplaced lots of its previous options,” defined the studio.
“All the small print are gone aside from a couple of key components – the staircase, the ground, the plaster partitions which revealed completely different layers of plaster and paint after eradicating the prevailing wallpaper and elements affected by damp,” he added.
“We determined to make use of conservation rules to protect these key options 'as discovered.' To reinforce their magnificence, any new additions are complementary however distinct from the previous.”
Coming into Putney Riverside, the foyer frames a few of the few remaining authentic options, together with a picket staircase, floorboards and plaster moldings on the ceilings.
Virtually 80% of the plasters being affected by moisture, this might solely be preserved on a few of the wall surfaces, VATRAA making repairs utilizing the “completely different however complementary” lime plaster.
The requirement to assist the construction of the home was used as a possibility to create a basement on the entrance of the home, which is illuminated by a lightweight properly with stairs resulting in the entrance backyard.
“This method exhibits an instance the place sensible options could be discovered if we act like a surgeon, eradicating solely the pointless elements and fixing the place obligatory,” VATRAA mentioned.
The colours and textures of the unique Putney Riverside surfaces knowledgeable the terracotta-coloured concrete extension, which accommodates an prolonged residing, eating and kitchen space to the rear of the home.
VATRAA has not prolonged the aspect flip of the home to create a courtyard-like strip of area subsequent to the kitchen, which maximizes daylight within the lengthy, deep plan in tandem with a row of skylights.
Just like the renovation of the prevailing house, the extension shouldn’t be designed to copy the previous house, however reasonably to supply a contemporary reinterpretation of it, with pale plastered partitions and a stepped concrete flooring.
Oak can also be used all through, painted to evoke Sri Lankan wooden, in a nod to the owners' background.
A big French door opens the residing space to a backyard overlooking the river, framed by terracotta-pigmented concrete that references the home's authentic crimson brick window surrounds.
To be delicate to the encompassing conservation space, the prevailing facade of the home was stored virtually an identical, with non-breathable masonry paint eliminated and changed with lime paint and lime-based plasters.
VATRAA was based in 2018 by Anamaria Pircu and Bogdan Rusu.
The studio not too long ago accomplished one other extension in London, which was constructed utilizing reclaimed bricks and contains a “brutal cat flap”, and remodeled a former artist's studio in west London right into a home with a six-metre mild properly peak.
Picture by Jim Stephenson.