The facades and walled garden of this home in the English town of Newbury are totally faced in Flemish-bonded handmade bricks that reference the neighbouring Arts and Crafts buildings .
The property is situated on a personal road referred to as Woodridge and was created by its owners, architects Annelies Rygole and Peter Tompkins, to accommodate their household of five.
The 5-bedroom residence replaces a 1960s bungalow in the grounds of an unique Arts and Crafts residence, which is 1 of several on a street that has also noticed more latest in-fill additions erected above the many years.
Its distinctive brickwork elevations feature neighborhood handmade Michelmarsh bricks laid in a classic Flemish bond pattern that incorporates grey-brown headers alongside the reddish-hued stretchers.
Other architects have recently used handmade rather than industrially created bricks to add character to their projects, which includes Duggan Morris for housing blocks next to a canal in London and Joris Verhoeven at a home in Holland, which features an asymmetric gable clad totally in brick.
The coarse texture of the brickwork and the all round tone and materiality create a sturdy hyperlink to the area’s heritage, whilst its exact remedy and the house’s volumetric simplicity set it apart as a distinctly modern day intervention on the street.
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“Brick is versatile and we needed a material that could match in and stand out at the identical time,” Rygole advised Dezeen. “We also wanted a materials that could carry out across the spectrum and supply the range and depth of tone needed with no turning into a cacophony on a tiny building.”
As effectively as drawing on the vernacular architecture of its neighbours, the design and style of the house is informed by useful requirements, like the site’s dimensions and the need to have to consist of 5 bedrooms. The result is a creating that supplies a assortment of vibrant interior spaces combined with more private places to increase its suitability for household residing.
In addition to the bedrooms, the constructing attributes 3 bathrooms, a sitting space with a wood-burning stove, an open-strategy kitchen and dining area, a utility area, larder and a property workplace.
Windows with diverse widths interrupt the elevations and indicate the place of different varieties of area inside of the internal programme. The contrast amongst the solidity of the brick and the transparency of the glass creates an irregular rhythm across the facades.
The windows guarantee plenty of organic light enters the home, which is surrounded by mature trees. At the rear of the developing, big sliding doors on the ground floor open onto a backyard and outside dining area.
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A walled garden at the front adds a sheltered outside area that catches the evening sun. Its owners use it like an additional area, which offers herbs for the adjacent kitchen and contains a fire pit for when it gets cold.
According to Rygole, creating their personal home aided the architects understand the process from the client’s stage of view and meant they were ready to change their ambitions as the undertaking progressed.
“Getting a client was a fantastic understanding knowledge for us and made us realise just how vital a excellent consumer is if you want to have hope for a great creating,” she pointed out.
“We at first had sensible requirements but we quickly realised they had been up for grabs as our principal aim was for a residence that interested and inspired us. We needed it to be actually special but not as well pretentious so that we could live with it and in it and be ourselves.”
Photography is by Simon Kennedy.
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