Hawthorn house - Simple material palette #shorts #interiordesign #architecture #architecturelovers

Client and architect describing the use of a simple material palette to create the interiors.

Hawthorn House is a garden oasis property on the De Beauvoir estate in London that celebrates unadorned craftsmanship and the design minds of its inhabitants.

The project was the winner of Home Transformation of the Year at the 2022 British Homes Awards.

Designed for two professors in design and fashion, the brief for this conservation property was to merge the house with the garden by celebrating honest materiality. The existing house plan had turned its back on the garden with a kitchen that faced inwards and a downstairs toilet taking the prime garden view.

The new stepped extension has opened the back of the house to blend the green of the garden with the home. The extension sympathetically steps out as far as the neighbours on both sides to ensure the least disruption to the adjacent properties and allowing the house and the garden to interlock. Window openings fold around the corners of the extension, stepping back and forth allowing the garden framing different views as you walk along the new hallway into the pink kitchen.

The bricks from the rear façade fold down into the garden forming the raised planter as if it has grown naturally out of the house. The planter bounds layered prairie style planting that respond to the angle of the sun and step in height based on proximity to the house. The wild grown feeling is straightened by a fishpond right at the rear picture window that was brought back to life from the original house.

The same bricks blend into the interior with the materiality of the layered garden outside to keep the feeling of a unified space. In a continuation of unadorned aesthetic, structural steels are kept exposed and celebrated by painting in electric blue.

Architecture and Interior Design by Bradley Van Der Straeten
Build by Optimal Build Ltd
Filmed and Edited by Khizr Studio

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