Ott’s Yard
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Twin triangular houses each with their own garden and a shared communal courtyard
The two houses occupy a former joiner’s yard that lies at the heart of a three-sided block of late 19th-century terraces in north London.
Each of the two-storey houses is topped with a monopitch green roof that falls towards the plan’s narrowest points.
Ground-floor bedrooms and bathrooms are arranged in a compact pinwheel arrangement at the wider end of each plan, with the living space sited on the mezzanine above is spatially continuous with the kitchen and dining area.
Data
- Begun: Feb 2012
- Completed: Aug 2013
- Floor area: 243m2
- Sector: House
- Total cost: £694,000
- Procurement: Contractor’s Design Portion
- Address: Tufnell Park, London, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: vPPR Architects
- Client: Contractor’s Design Portion
- Project manager: Tatiana von Preussen
- Structural engineer: Heyne Tillett Steel
- M&E consultant: Richard Pearce & Associates
- Quantity surveyor: Jonathan Stockdale
- Party Wall Surveyor: Fareed Fetto & Co
- Approved building inspector : BBS
- Main contractor: Varbud Construction Co
