Haringey, London
The clients, a professional architectural photographer and fashion designer, were seeking to enlarge their ground and top floors in a way that reflected the nature of the site and their love for design.
The main concept was to capture a key view of mature trees several doors down, visible from the front reception room and upper levels, and open up the plans to embrace this vista. Projecting oriel windows on the first and second floor angle towards the trees, as a triptych of apertures framing the shot.
On the ground floor, wall and joinery lines are also angled, to open up the viewer’s vantage of the distant trees as they walk into the extension. Frameless glass admit these vistas deep into the footprint with minimal obstruction. The splayed wall/joinery lines form a continuous plane, a pleated fabric, which draws the eye from entrance hallway right through to the main space.
The continuous plane of joinery is painted off-black to further accentuate the bright external views, while oak details and white-painted floorboards inject warmth and relief.
Project Architect/Designer: Marco Curtaz
Collaborations: Karbassi Engineering, FSF