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Project posted by WILLIAM TOZER Associates

Euclidean Terrace

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Location
England, United Kingdom
Year
2018
Structure
House (Single Residence)
Looking from the dining area adjacent to the garden, the triangular roof-lights provide ample daylighting to the deep-plan areas of the scheme, and define soft edges to the different zones of the open-plan space.
Looking from the dining area adjacent to the garden, the triangular roof-lights provide ample daylighting to the deep-plan areas of the scheme, and define soft edges to the different zones of the open-plan space.
Looking from the dining area adjacent to the garden, the triangular roof-lights provide ample daylighting to the deep-plan areas of the scheme, and define soft edges to the different zones of the open-plan space.
Looking from the dining area adjacent to the garden, the triangular roof-lights provide ample daylighting to the deep-plan areas of the scheme, and define soft edges to the different zones of the open-plan space.
Oblique views of the garden from the kitchen are framed through rectilinear apertures to the dining and living zones of the new space.
Oblique views of the garden from the kitchen are framed through rectilinear apertures to the dining and living zones of the new space.
Recalling the Skyspaces of the artist James Turrell, but in a triangular geometry, the roof-lights refocus attention on framed views of the sky.
Recalling the Skyspaces of the artist James Turrell, but in a triangular geometry, the roof-lights refocus attention on framed views of the sky.
Recalling the Skyspaces of the artist James Turrell, but in a triangular geometry, the roof-lights refocus attention on framed views of the sky.
Recalling the Skyspaces of the artist James Turrell, but in a triangular geometry, the roof-lights refocus attention on framed views of the sky.
The materials and forms of the new architecture address and reconcile the eclectic building language of the existing buildings to the site.
The materials and forms of the new architecture address and reconcile the eclectic building language of the existing buildings to the site.
The kitchen space is defined by the overlapping intersection of a rectilinear volume and a triangular roof-light, while a mirror visually extends the new architecture into the existing building.
The kitchen space is defined by the overlapping intersection of a rectilinear volume and a triangular roof-light, while a mirror visually extends the new architecture into the existing building.
The kitchen space is defined by the overlapping intersection of a rectilinear volume and a triangular roof-light, while a mirror visually extends the new architecture into the existing building.
The kitchen space is defined by the overlapping intersection of a rectilinear volume and a triangular roof-light, while a mirror visually extends the new architecture into the existing building.
Viewed from the living area of the open-plan space, the dining area is visually defined by a crank in the floor-plan and a triangular roof-light, which punctuates this reorientation on the ceiling plane.
Viewed from the living area of the open-plan space, the dining area is visually defined by a crank in the floor-plan and a triangular roof-light, which punctuates this reorientation on the ceiling plane.
Oblique views of the garden from the kitchen are framed through rectilinear apertures to the dining and living zones of the new space.
Oblique views of the garden from the kitchen are framed through rectilinear apertures to the dining and living zones of the new space.
Walls and cupboards are articulated as white, rectilinear planes and volumes.
Walls and cupboards are articulated as white, rectilinear planes and volumes.
The materials and forms of the new architecture address and reconcile the eclectic building language of the existing buildings to the site.
The materials and forms of the new architecture address and reconcile the eclectic building language of the existing buildings to the site.
Viewed from the living area of the open-plan space, the dining area is visually defined by a crank in the floor-plan and a triangular roof-light, which punctuates this reorientation on the ceiling plane.
Viewed from the living area of the open-plan space, the dining area is visually defined by a crank in the floor-plan and a triangular roof-light, which punctuates this reorientation on the ceiling plane.

Details

Square Feet
800

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Architect
Builder
Demir Trumci
PSK Group Concept-Linea (joinery)
Photographer

From WILLIAM TOZER Associates

The project addresses the interaction between the misaligned rectilinear footprints of the existing house and its garden. While also rectilinear, the new external form is oriented to the garden rather than the house, resulting in triangular gaps where it meets the original building. These gaps are glazed, and appear from the exterior as voids between the misaligned rectilinear buildings—while from the interior they are perceived as triangular roof-lights due to the continuity of the ceiling planes between new and old. Conversely, the setting out of the floorboards and paving continues the orientation of the garden and new architecture back into the existing building. Interior volumes are similarly oriented to one direction or the other. This variable dominance of one orientation over the other—between inside and outside, and one building surface and another—presents the new architecture as both a hybrid of the two, and an autonomous design.