A roof of darkish patinated copper distinguishes this home in Wimbledon Village, London, designed by native structure studio Jason Good Structure.
Jason Good Structure drew on the leafy neighbourhood’s mixture of Arts and Crafts-style structure and extra trendy homes for the two-bedroom dwelling, which replaces an current Eighties cottage.
“We aimed to design a home that sits comfortably and sensitively inside its context, with out merely recreating the previous,” founder Jason Good instructed Dezeen.
“This acceptance of modernism within the space is partly as a result of daring, rule-breaking home on the adjoining avenue to our web site, designed by Richard and Su Rogers for Richard’s dad and mom within the Nineteen Sixties,” added Good.
“Their modernist glass home challenged the conservative architectural norms of the time, paving the way in which for up to date designs like ours,” he added.
The L-shaped floor flooring of the house is split by a central entrance corridor illuminated by two giant, round skylights, one in every of which extends upwards inside a cylindrical type to present the constructing its distinctive “high hat”.
Hugging a backyard on the rear of the house, each the lounge and most important bed room open onto a patio by way of giant glass doorways, whereas the kitchen overlooks a small walled backyard created alongside the house’s entrance driveway.
“The double-storey mild and air flow oculus, which we confer with because the ‘high hat’, not solely shapes the exterior type of the constructing but additionally performs a key function within the inner structure by bringing pure mild and air flow into the guts of the house,” mentioned Good.
A black staircase illuminated by a double-height part of glass bricks results in the primary flooring. Right here, a TV room overlooks the doorway corridor via a glazed round opening and is flanked by a examine and a further bed room.
Every of those areas takes benefit of the set-back nature of the entrance of the house, which permits for big home windows overlooking the road. In the back of the house, the openings are minimised to stop overlooking.
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“One of many key challenges was the proximity to neighbouring properties, which restricted home windows on the rear first-floor elevation,” mentioned Good.
“This constraint turned a artistic alternative to discover alternative routes of bringing mild into the home whereas guaranteeing privateness,” he continued.
“We launched a mixture of skylights, glass blocks, and punctiliously positioned horizontal home windows, enriching the standard of sunshine and reinforcing the spatial movement of the rooms.”
Beneath the higher degree of patinated copper, the bottom flooring of the house is completed in darkish, handmade brick. This materials palette was chosen by Good for its “sturdiness and sense of expertise”.
Inside, stone flooring and oak panelling are supposed to create a “minimal and pure really feel”, with the loos that includes walnut Japanese baths and full-height marble partitions.
Elsewhere in London, different lately accomplished houses embody a residence with a slatted picket flooring by S2B Studio and a brick and concrete dwelling in Crystal Palace by 31/44 Architects.
The images is by Jim Stephenson.
