A steeply-pitched roof coated in red-clay tiles defines Center Avenue Home, a household dwelling in Surrey designed by structure studio Rural Workplace.
The dwelling, which replaces an interwar bungalow on a nook plot, is meant to be delicate to the suburb of the city of Farnham wherein it’s positioned.
Center Avenue Home has been created by Rural Workplace for a pair with two grownup youngsters and it’s adaptable to their altering wants.
It additionally takes a recent strategy to the vernacular of the world, reflecting Arts and Crafts beliefs of expertise and utilizing pure supplies in its design.
“[The house] is an ode to a late nineteenth century interval of structure with a language of vitality and luxury,” Rural Workplace informed Dezeen.
A mature laurel hedge wraps across the full size of the location, performing as a datum and backyard wall, offering privateness from the road.
Pink-clay Keymer tiles cowl the roof, which additionally options brown, patinated-zinc dormer home windows of differing sizes and two capped chimneys. It’s meant as a recent interpretation of a standard Arts and Crafts dwelling.
“The steeply pitched roof and white gables that face the 2 roads are the one seen elements of the home,” the studio defined. “The bottom ground [is] consumed by the hedge.”
Center Avenue Home is organised round a triple-height corridor, connecting all inside areas that span two flooring. On the decrease storey, a lounge, kitchen and diner hinge off this central corridor.
Internally, the home has a palette of pure supplies that goals to replicate the beliefs of the Arts and Crafts motion. Brown brick kinds each the flooring and fireplaces, whereas white-painted plaster and timber panelling line the partitions.
Bespoke wood joinery kinds a staircase main up by the constructing to a book-lined gallery library positioned underneath a skylight.
On the higher storey are three bedrooms, bogs and research areas, every with its personal dormer window.
“Every dormer acts as a spot to sit down, research or work,” stated Rural Workplace. “The high-level dormers are positioned over bogs creating taller intimate areas throughout the coronary heart of the plan with sky views.”
Passivhaus requirements knowledgeable the vitality technique of the home, with the studio’s design making use of triple glazing, an hermetic envelope and mechanical warmth restoration.
Rural Workplace is a Welsh studio based in 2008 by Niall Maxwell. Center Avenue Home is considered one of thirty winners of the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Nationwide Awards for 2023 and additionally it is vying for RIBA Home of the Yr.
Different tasks in Surrey just lately featured on Dezeen embrace a stepped roof extension to a home by Oliver Leech Architects and one other Arts and Crafts-influenced home by Alexander Martin Architects.
The images is by Rory Gaylor.
