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Client: Private Client
Structural Engineer: Crouch Waterfall & Partners
Contractor: 800 Group
Completion Date: November 2008
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In addition to five bedrooms, two dressings rooms, two living rooms, a dining room and a kitchen, this new home offers generous and well-connected entertainment spaces as well as a workshop, a gym, a play room for the children, a wine cellar, a cinema, a music room and two home offices. The lightwell at the rear of the house even incorporates a 6m high climbing wall.
One of the client’s other key requirements was that the building should be as sustainable as possible, taking advantage of all practical solutions to reduce the carbon emissions of the house. The house incorporates a biomass boiler for heating and hot water, photovoltaic panels on the roof to generate electricity, a well that supplies the house with fresh drinking water, high levels of thermal insulation well above the Building Control minimum and automatically controlled, natural ventilation throughout the building.
To accommodate all of the programme required by the brief, a sub-basement was excavated, creating a 5-story building with one and a half stories below ground level. The floors are connected by sculptural staircase made of solid sand stone and 10mm sheet metal. The stair tapers inwards as it spirals up through the building allowing natural light to flood down into the house through the large skylight at the top and sliding filters wash the walls with a vast spectrum of colours. The staircase skylight is one of several site-specific art works developed with the client, who as an artist, works primarily with natural light. The client’s preoccupation with light and colour informed many other features of the design, and this process of collaboration proved to be one of the most rewarding aspects of the project.
Every room of the house is completely bespoke, carefully tailored to the client’s specific requirements and designed to accommodate the client’s incredible collection of 20th century furniture including some beautiful pieces from Barber Osgerby that were designed specifically for the house.
Structural Engineer: Crouch Waterfall & Partners
Contractor: 800 Group
Completion Date: November 2008
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This freestanding Notting Hill Villa was completely rebuilt on the site of the previous house that had to be demolished due to its severe structural problems. The front facade is designed to resemble the original house, satisfying local conservation requirements but the interior and rear facade have been completely remodelled to create a modern family home.
In addition to five bedrooms, two dressings rooms, two living rooms, a dining room and a kitchen, this new home offers generous and well-connected entertainment spaces as well as a workshop, a gym, a play room for the children, a wine cellar, a cinema, a music room and two home offices. The lightwell at the rear of the house even incorporates a 6m high climbing wall.
One of the client’s other key requirements was that the building should be as sustainable as possible, taking advantage of all practical solutions to reduce the carbon emissions of the house. The house incorporates a biomass boiler for heating and hot water, photovoltaic panels on the roof to generate electricity, a well that supplies the house with fresh drinking water, high levels of thermal insulation well above the Building Control minimum and automatically controlled, natural ventilation throughout the building.
To accommodate all of the programme required by the brief, a sub-basement was excavated, creating a 5-story building with one and a half stories below ground level. The floors are connected by sculptural staircase made of solid sand stone and 10mm sheet metal. The stair tapers inwards as it spirals up through the building allowing natural light to flood down into the house through the large skylight at the top and sliding filters wash the walls with a vast spectrum of colours. The staircase skylight is one of several site-specific art works developed with the client, who as an artist, works primarily with natural light. The client’s preoccupation with light and colour informed many other features of the design, and this process of collaboration proved to be one of the most rewarding aspects of the project.
Every room of the house is completely bespoke, carefully tailored to the client’s specific requirements and designed to accommodate the client’s incredible collection of 20th century furniture including some beautiful pieces from Barber Osgerby that were designed specifically for the house.
