Structure studio Dallas Pierce Quintero has accomplished a cluster of homes in London with sawtooth roofs and corrugated-metal cladding that nod to the location’s former use as a builders’ yard.
The undertaking, named Forest Homes, is positioned beside Wanstead Flats parkland in Newham and is conceived as a prototype for reimagining unloved brownfield and infill websites.
It includes a three-bedroom dwelling, a pair of two-bedroom homes and a one-bedroom residence in a transformed store, all oriented to miss the close by park.
Dallas Pierce Quintero adopted an “upside-down” format for the houses, with ground-floor bedrooms and first-floor residing areas that give entry to pure mild and views.
“The interlocking buildings have helped reimagine this unloved pocket of house – of which there are a lot of in cities like London – in a approach that’s house environment friendly, with out compromising on present amenity house or daylight to neighbouring properties,” co-founder Jonathan Dallas informed Dezeen.
The Forest Homes’ bedrooms sit inside raised brick plinths that reference the encircling Victorian terraces and interlock with a collection of courtyards enclosed by perforated brickwork.
Above, the residing, eating and kitchen areas are housed in a collection of prefabricated cross-laminated timber (CLT) “pods”, clad externally in corrugated metallic knowledgeable by the location’s former industrial use.
“In creating our design, we have been eager to make sure that the first-floor pods drew inspiration from industrial constructions not simply of their look, however within the effectivity of their development,” stated Dallas.
“Providing a quick but high-quality resolution, the pods have been manufactured in panels after which assembled on-site, in lower than 5 days, offering a possible prototype for brownfield improvement, which might ship dense, adaptable city residing,” he added.
The Forest Homes’ inside finishes mirror the exterior distinction, with uncovered blockwork used within the ground-floor bedrooms and uncovered CLT within the first-floor pods.
First-floor areas are organised with a kitchen to the rear and residing house on the entrance, benefitting from the extra peak of the sawtooth roof and a clerestory window.
The plinth has been topped with a grass roof, mixing into the encircling views whereas additionally offering a personal out of doors house for the models.
Whereas the smaller openings on the primary ground are frosted for privateness, every of the Forest Homes is oriented to permit for a fully-glazed wall at one finish overlooking the park.
Different initiatives in London which have lately tailored uncared for infill websites embrace a house by Studioshaw, which additionally used a sawtooth roof type to attract mild onto a former storage website.
Parti created a compact housing undertaking inside a terrace of Victorian buildings with a palette of strong and reasonably priced supplies.
The images is by French + Tye.
