British studio Tikari Works has accomplished an outbuilding for a south London residence that’s framed by a latticed timber roof construction and configured to weave round a Lebanese cedar tree.
Tikari Works crafted the challenge, named A Room Round a Tree, to have a minimal influence on the woodland setting whereas accommodating a flexible inside house and adjoining terrace for the consumer’s household.
“The core idea of the design is to have a good time the mature cedar tree that’s the point of interest of the backyard while creating a versatile house for our consumer’s rising household,” Tikari Works director Ty Tikari advised Dezeen.
“The timber beams are further deep and stained black to create a meditative inside ambiance and produce the verdant greens of the backyard to the foreground,” he continued.
Desiring to create a dialogue with the panorama, the sting of the constructing was wrapped round surrounding tree branches and partially bounded by clear structural glazing.
“The curved type of the challenge permits the constructing to interact with the language of the backyard because the constructing edge weaves between the pure options on the positioning,” Tikari defined.
“Internally, this creates a way of compression and enlargement that’s used to organise the constructing features with out the necessity for bodily boundaries.”
In line with the studio, A Room Round a Tree was constructed utilizing light-handed building methods to safeguard the vegetation, together with a low-impact “floating” ring beam and mini-pile basis system.
“The first driver for the format of the challenge was to make sure that the constructing maintained a minimal distance of two metres to all bushes on the positioning, guaranteeing that the well being of the bushes can be undisturbed,” Tikari defined.
“This restriction mixed with this system and motion across the web site helped to create the parti of the challenge, which in flip knowledgeable the structural technique for touching the bottom flippantly.”
Internally, the studio built-in customized joinery, together with an oak kitchenette, cast-concrete sink and cell storage unit to encourage future flexibility.
“The on a regular basis points of the pavilion – the kitchen, toilet and storage models – are positioned inside sculptural types, enriching their prosaic nature with a extra soulful high quality,” Tikari mentioned.
“Available, off-the-shelf supplies, equivalent to corrugated cladding, blockwork and stained timber helped maintain the challenge on price range, while the bespoke detailing of those supplies enrich their tactile nature and specific our pleasure in making.”
London-based Tikari Works was established in 2015 by Nicola and Ty Tikari.
The studio has beforehand accomplished a block of flats in Peckham coated in rust-red tiles and {a partially} subterranean timber-screened house in south London beforehand occupied by a storage.
The pictures is by Dan Glasser.
