Euclidean Terrace
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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.
Photography by William Tozer Associates
Data
- Begun: Mar 2018
- Completed: Oct 2018
- Floor area: 75m2
- Sector: Residential
- Total cost: £112,000
- Funding: Private
- Tender date: May 2017
- Procurement: Minor Works Building Contract with contractor's design 2016
- Address: Tulse Hill, United Kingdom
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Professional Team
- Architect: William Tozer Associates
- Client: Private
- Structural engineer: Graham Grant
- Main contractor: Demir Trumci
- Professional team: MLM (building control) Adam Cakebread (party wall surveyor)
Suppliers
- Selected subcontractors and suppliers: Concept-Linea and Simply Paving
