Home for two painters is a contemporary conversion of a Victorian home in Hackney, into a series of generous rooms for living and painting. The existing rear extension is reconfigured from a clutter of volumes into a simple stepped form; adding square meters, allowing for light to reach all spaces and carving terraced balconies to connect with the view and experience nature around the site.
In conversation with our client, we’ve redesigned the ground floor into an open flexible space with various rooms to sit, meet, eat and come together. The garden now features a pottery shed and becomes the backdrop for the couple to look across each other whilst cooking and working. The need for new foundations became an opportunity to add a lower ground gallery for larger works and exhibitions. A long skylight surface is installed into the attic to transform it into a well-lit painting studio.
Materials such as upcycled steel sections, glass, glass blocks, rammed concrete and various salvaged building components have been used to add to the existing structure.
Studio space attic.
Kitchen looking onto rear garden.
Lower ground gallery.
Isometric view of existing and proposed.
Planometric view of proposal.
Type: Architecture
Location: Hackney, UK
Size: 300m2
Status: Ongoing
Visualisations: IKONA LAB