This video shot by architectural photographer Edmund Sumner exhibits the pebbledash-covered rooftop studio that architect Sean Griffiths just lately added to the postmodern Blue Home in London.
The extension is designed “within the spirit” of the much-lauded unique home, which Griffiths designed in 2002 as his own residence alongside FAT companions Charles Holland and Sam Jacob.
Clad in pink-toned pebbledash, the addition incorporates a rooftop studio that opens on a pebble-filled terrace meant to evoke the seaside at Camber Sands. Its tough texture is designed to be in distinction to the pale blue clapboard-patterned fibre-cement partitions of the unique dwelling.
“I am glad that we didn’t simply mimic the aesthetic of the unique home within the extension, that we saved experimenting within the spirit of the unique home however created one thing that contrasted, however labored effectively with the unique,” Griffiths advised Dezeen.
“I wasn’t positive whether or not that was the correct strategy as we have been doing it, however now I feel it was.”
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The movie is by Edmund Sumner.
