The Herringbone Houses Design by Alison Brooks Architects
Alison Brooks Architects was completed this Herringbone Houses Design development in september 2006, which features two properties in Wandsworth, London. The Houses were built for a total value of £1.6 Million and feature a herringbone patterned wooden surface that integrates the property within the surrounding area.
From the Architect:
Uniquely sited in a backlands plot, overlooking a wandsworth bowling green, this scheme consisit of two 400sqm ‘urban woodland’ houses for developer Lyford Investment. Like a Victorian house turned ‘inside out’, the building’s herringbone cladding is a traditional timber floor pattern transferred to facades, creating an optical illusion of accordion-like surfacs. Light filled atriums illuminate suspended stairs at the centre of each house; high-ceilinged open-plan spaces interlock with gardens, full basements decrease the footprint but add space. The houses are rare example of a developer aiming to match the craftsmanship of neighbouring Victorian Villas within a contemporary architectural language.
The houses were conceived from the principle of manipulating two continuous planes of timber and graphite render, that extend from exterior to interior, forming walls, floors, external decking and fences. This approach, of using folding planar elements to ‘wrap’ space to create enclosure, generates, an informal, bright and transparent open-ness to the houses and family-friendly connective spaces. Around the atrium spaces, the ground floor open plan living, family and kitchen areas all lead onto generous garden terraces. Washed by light from above, the timber staircase conceived as a single block cut in two connects ground floor to the first floor gallery.
The Herringbone Houses Design by Alison Brooks Architects
The Herringbone Houses Design by Alison Brooks Architects
The Herringbone Houses Design by Alison Brooks Architects
The Herringbone Houses Design by Alison Brooks Architects
The Herringbone Houses Interior Kitchen Design
The Herringbone Houses Interior Living Area Design
The Herringbone Houses by Alison Brooks Architects
The photographer for this project was Cristobal Palma
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