CORNER HOUSE

A new three-storey, net zero modern mews house on a complex backland site in North London 

PROJECT AIM

 

The brief for the project was to explore the potential of the site and ultimately create a small sensitively scaled house.

The challenge was to create an exemplary, light-filled sustainable home where the site constraints would usually limit the potential for anything exceptional.

OUR CONCEPT

 

The concept derives from the site, its context, and the principles of natural light.

The form is sculpted to allow daylight and visual amenity to the neighbours, whilst creating flowing internal spaces that receive natural daylight at all levels.

The form then opens up to the park and its mature trees, filtering the sun onto south facing external space and glazing.

THE DESIGN

 

The design carves a series of light-filled spaces out of a constrained plot, formerly occupied by a small storage shed, and makes the most of its parkside setting.

A masonry wall wraps around a collection of deceptively spacious ground and lower ground floor spaces and courtyards, with a CLT timber structure rising to first floor and providing views over Butterfield Green

The house is carefully crafted with sustainable materials and employs the latest low energy passive design principles.

Location: Hackney, London
Role: Architect (Self Build)

TEAM

Structural Engineer, Drainage Engineer, Party Wall Surveyor: Entuitive
Groundworks Contractor: Elysium Construction