Soupçon Brut
The modern lower-ground floor connects to the rest of the house via an open-riser timber staircase with clear glass balustrade.
Living and dining spaces are open-plan to the kitchen and courtyard, all of which share a continuous, tiled floor finish.
The modern intervention is articulated as a clean cut into the original building fabric, into which a sleeve of modern architecture is inserted.
The raw concrete finish to the courtyard references the materiality of the brutalist architecture to the adjoining site.
Art objects to the interior are framed by voids in the white-painted sculptural volumes of the architectural composition, and this gesture is repeated at a larger scale on the rear elevation to present the adjacent brutalist building in the same way.
Strategic alterations to the upper floors are conceived as fragments of the extensive alterations below, sharing spatial and formal characteristics, including materiality.