London studio EBBA Architects has accomplished the renovation of a terraced home in Camden, London, including a metallic body construction that takes cues from Victorian design.
Named Camden Residence, the mission contains various delicate alterations inside the present constructing in addition to a glazed, double-height extension primarily based round a inflexible white body construction.
Nestled right into a sunken portion of the again backyard and spanning the complete width of the plot, the framed extension was designed by EBBA Architects to brighten the Victorian home and improve its connection to the backyard.
“The principle purpose of the renovation of the home was to attempt to create a greater connection between totally different areas inside the residence, and on the similar time carry gentle down into what was very darkish areas,” studio founder Benni Allan advised Dezeen.
“The shoppers wished to create areas that felt higher related, and loved the preliminary suggestion to make a void that might join three totally different elements of the home – the kitchen, residing and examine,” he continued.
“On the similar time they liked to be within the backyard, which impressed the Victorian-like light-weight metallic construction that helps to border the backyard.”
The newly added double-height construction contains glass panes set again inside a white metal body that takes cues from a Victorian metallic terrace that the studio discovered behind the property and demolished to create space for the brand new extension.
“The characteristic we loved discovering when first seeing the home was an exterior metallic terrace that the shoppers described having fun with as a spot to face and watch individuals throughout their summer season events,” stated Allan.
“It was this that impressed the double-height quantity and the inside balcony, serving to to retain that side and connection to the ground under.”
Along with including the extension, EBBA Architects absolutely renovated the prevailing constructing, retaining its historic options together with unique timber work and stairs in addition to a portion of the floorboards.
“The home was absolutely renovated and we purposefully saved all the unique options, whereas the brand new interventions helped so as to add a brand new layer to the historical past of the home,” stated Allan.
“The unique timber work and stairs have been restored and repainted. Equally, other than the decrease and floor flooring, we retained and painted the entire floorboards as a approach to hold to the character of the home,” he continued.
The framed quantity was designed to behave as a void that brightens the remainder of the home. Accessed from a sunken, brick-lined terrace, the extension accommodates an empty house that has been deliberately left open to the areas inside the present quantity.
On the bottom flooring, the extension opens onto a eating space flanked by rhythmically profiled white partitions.
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Instantly past this, the eating space opens onto the kitchen, the place darkish picket finishes throughout the cupboards, kitchen island, and a built-in bench match the wooden of the adjoining eating desk.
“We selected to make use of ash due to its fascinating markings and the best way it may be handled to carry out the grain,” stated Allan. “The darkish tone was supposed to work with the brilliant areas, including heat and texture.”
By way of preserving an open plan, EBBA Architects aimed to border views of the backyard exterior all through the property.
“The stunning expertise in being inside and searching is that the framing of the brand new home windows helps to mix in with the massive tall bushes that sit on the again,” stated Allan. “It is the primary time you could possibly be inside and respect the size and high quality of the bushes, and the advantage of the areas being flooded by gentle.”
On the primary flooring, the areas that border the brand new extension have been left open to the double-height void, with shutters and a brand new white railing added to imitate the Victorian balcony that used to run alongside the again of the property.
The pale color scheme continues throughout the remainder of the house, with pale partitions and clay tile-lined flooring complemented in locations by darkish ash finishes and stone.
“The selection to go together with gentle flooring and partitions was supposed to attract as a lot gentle as attainable into the depth of the plan,” stated Allan. “The place it was wanted, a stone is used to line sinks and self-importance items, giving a strong end that enhances the nice and cozy timber.”
“We take pleasure in working with pure supplies that may seize the altering gentle all through the day,” he continued.
Areas on the primary flooring embody a front room and newly added examine that open onto the double-height void and have unique detailing that has been deliberately left uncovered.
Linked by the retained unique staircase, the higher two ranges of the four-storey residence comprise bedrooms and loos, together with a fundamental en-suite centred round a bespoke picket tub.
“Bespoke joinery was designed and crafted for every perform inside the home, from a sprawling freestanding central island within the kitchen to a lineup of customized items within the bed room and fundamental en-suite,” stated the studio.
“A conventional Japanese tub, positioned within the centre of the primary en-suite, creates a focus enhanced additional by the softly textured clay partitions.”
Different renovations of Victorian houses lately featured on Dezeen embody a terraced south London residence that has been prolonged in two instructions and a Victorian residence redesigned with a “mushy minimalism” strategy.
The images is by Rikard Kahn until in any other case said.
