The Pink Home in southwest England by London studio David Kohn Architects has been named the RIBA’s Home of the 12 months for 2022.
Situated in rural Dorset, the two-storey household house is distinguished by its playful but restrained exterior that juxtaposes patterned purple brickwork with shiny inexperienced particulars.
The Home of the 12 months award is awarded yearly by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to the UK’s finest new architect-designed home.
Pink Home by David Kohn Architects was chosen by the jury because the winner for 2022 in recognition of the best way that it “confronts our expectations of a home in a fantastic setting”.
“Unusual but quirky, extravagant though utilitarian, the Pink Home confronts our expectations of a home in a fantastic setting that by no means desires to settle into being a technique or one other,” stated head of the jury and architect Taro Tsuruta.
“An aesthetic and sustainable constructing with future-proof performance, it attracts on architectural references from [William] Morris to [James] Stirling – with many surprises all through which have been applauded by all of the jury members.”
Created for a pair and their younger daughter, the two-storey Pink Home was supposed to be as an eccentric interpretation of conventional British housing.
In an interview with Dezeen earlier this 12 months, David Kohn Architects’ founder David Kohn stated that the house “appeals to the picture of an peculiar home, however is constructed with the fabric and constructional integrity of a constructing designed to endure and age effectively”.
Reflecting on the win, Kohn stated that he “couldn’t be extra delighted”.
“The jury have chosen to help structure that’s intimate, playful, vibrant, and engages each with its context and historical past,” Kohn continued.
Behind its patterned purple brickwork, inexperienced particulars and outsized eaves, the house has shiny and spacious interiors organised round six “storage towers” containing closets, bogs and utility areas.
A showpiece of the inside is a grand sculptural staircase, which sweeps as much as the primary ground previous a projecting bay window.
The interiors have been designed to be future-proof, which means they’re suited to future accessibility wants.
These accessibility measures embrace the presence of a raise, rounded corners on built-in furnishings and seize rails on cabinets.
The Pink Home was revealed as this 12 months’s winner through the closing episode of the Channel 4 tv collection Grand Designs: Home of the 12 months.
Over the 4 weeks, the collection has seen the 20-strong longlist whittled down to only seven initiatives.
Alongside the Pink Home, these included Seabreeze by RX Architects, the Dutch Barn by Sandy Rendel Architects and the Mews Home Deep Retrofit by Prewett Bizley Architects.
The Surbiton Springs home by Surman Weston, the Suffolk Cottage by Haysom Ward Miller and the Library Home by Macdonald Wright Architects have been additionally shortlisted.
This 12 months’s winner was chosen by a jury consisting of chair Tsuruta, founding father of Tsuruta Architects, and architect Alison Brooks, the founding father of final 12 months’s successful studio Alison Brooks Architects.
Additionally on the panel have been designer Yinka Ilori, director at Structure for London Ben Ridley, founder and co-founder of Tikari Works Nicola Tikari.
Final 12 months’s winner was Home on the Hill by Alison Brooks Architects – a house in Gloustershire comprising an art-filled black extension and a Georgian farmhouse that now comprises a gallery.
Previous winners additionally embrace a dwelling in Edinburgh with secret hatches and a residence in Kent that references the hop-drying towers.
The pictures is by Will Pryce.
