Architectural studio Bindloss Dawes has added an expressed concrete and timber extension to a dilapidated terraced house Hackney, London.
The studio renovated and extended the double-fronted Victorian house overlooking Clissold Park in Stoke Newington, which had previously been turned into bedsits and suffered from decades-long neglect.
▲ Bindloss Dawes 在倫敦完成了一處住宅擴建項目
Bindloss Dawes has completed a home extension in London
總部位于薩默塞特的 Bindloss Dawes 為 Emma Dahlman 和 Nick Illston 進行了此次翻修,他們希望在 Lordship Park 自然保護區建造一個家庭住宅。
Somerset-based Bindloss Dawes carried out the renovation for Emma Dahlman and Nick Illston, who wanted to create a family home in the Lordship Park Conservation Area.
Collaborating with Dahlman on interiors, the studio designed an extension to create a dining room and a grand living room with ceilings over four metres high.
▲ 一個階梯式露臺通向后花園
A stepped patio leads out to the rear garden
The original Victorian house was carefully restored, with living spaces at ground floor level, and four bedrooms and bathrooms on the first.
The loft was converted to create the main bedroom, with a dormer window overlooking Clissold Park, while the basement has been dug down to create a cinema room and gym.
The "central nervous system" of the extension, as the studio describes it, is a cruciform reinforced concrete structure that holds up the house's rear wall and becomes its defining feature.
▲ 餐廳設在延伸部分
The dining room was created in the extension
Bindloss Dawes left the concrete raw and unfinished, allowing the patterns from the wooden casing to remain visible and creating a contemporary counterpoint to the traditional main house.
"In the extension we wanted to celebrate and express the new structure, which is so vital is holding up the back of the building, as well as creating the spine-wall of the new extension," said Bindloss Dawes co-founder George Dawes.
"In situ reinforced concrete was a natural choice, treating the surface differently for the floors and walls, and creating a material departure from the Victorian interiors," he added.
▲ 結構混凝土框架被裸露在外
The structural concrete frame was left exposed
In the living areas, the timber roof structure has also been left exposed creating a dynamic contrast between wood and concrete.
"While the material and tonal qualities of timber, concrete and brick are complementary, they also allow you to understand the structural composition of the building," added Dawes.
This mix of materials was chosen by Dahlman to reference brutalist architecture in the Sri Lankan tropics and mid-century LA modernist homes. It is carried throughout the house with oak detailing in the kitchen, bathroom and basement.
"We wanted to incorporate plenty of wood and textiles to balance the cold, hard surfaces of the concrete," said Dahlman. "All the wood is either left untreated or oiled to accentuate the warmth of the material."
▲ 混凝土結構構成了廚房的入口框架
The concrete structure frames the kitchen's entryway
The kitchen doors feature a rough-sawn texture that echoes the raw concrete structure, while all the brassware in the house, including taps and door handles have been left untreated allowing it to age and develop a unique patina over time.
In the main part of the house, Dahlman said she wanted to avoid a "dark, gloomy Victorian atmosphere", opting instead for a light and warm wall colour palette and oiled floors.
"As a Swede, I'm familiar with the traditional method of treating wooden floors with lye and white oil, which keeps the rooms light and airy," she said.
▲ 房屋的其余部分采用白墻和涂油地板
White walls and oiled floors line the rest of the home
在延伸部分,廚房被設計成家庭的中心聚集點。用餐區配有 Carl Hansen 的桌椅和 Frama 的置物架。
In the extension, the kitchen was designed as a central congregation point for the family. The dining space features a Carl Hansen table and chairs and Frama shelving units.
The rear of the property opens onto a large garden through a pair of sliding glass doors. The stepped patio of suspended concrete and brick leads out into the garden, with buff-toned Weinerberger bricks echoing the original Victorian facades.
▲ 黃銅細節未經過處理
Brassware details were left untreated
Bindloss Dawes 于 2018 年在布魯頓開設了事務所,其近期完成的項目包括薩默塞特的 Old School 住宅改造和一座 18 世紀酒吧的翻新。
同樣在倫敦,一間頂層公寓頂部增建了一個鋁制“屋頂亭”,一處排屋增建了黏土覆蓋的延伸部分。
Bindloss Dawes opened its Bruton-based practice in 2018 and its recently completed projects include the transformation of Old School House and the renovation of an 18th-century pub, both in Somerset.
Also in London, a penthouse has been topped with an aluminium "rooftop pavilion" and a clay-covered extension was added to a terraced house.