White Patio Home / Pashenko Works

White Patio Home / Pashenko Works

Textual content description supplied by the architects. The venture is an extension and renovation of an current Victorian terrace. It was conceived as a prototype for city dense residing, the place the event has been thoughtfully maximized inside native planning constraints. The standard kind of terraced home backed by a backyard has been reworked into a brand new kind – a patio home. It efficiently responds to the problem of constructing experientially wealthy dwellings inside the context of congested cityscape.

The venture consists of 5 distinct elements which might be skilled in sequence when getting into the constructing: 1. The unique Victorian terrace dealing with Harbour Street; 2. A glass ‘bridge’ – atrium; 3. The brand new up to date extensions on the floor and first ranges; 4. A patio backyard framed by: 5. a backyard room on the reverse finish of the location. The house sequence is assumed by not solely horizontally but in addition vertically. The bottom flooring is open, public, and noisy; the primary flooring is split into rooms for company and kids. And the final high flooring is a main bedroom on the newly added mansard roof – full of sunshine and quiet on the finish of vacation spot site visitors.

The “outdated” host constructing and the brand new volumes are linked by a conceptual glass “bridge”; this atrium brings daylight into the middle of the home whereas visually and bodily connecting all flooring ranges. The configuration of the “bridge” embodies the “reminiscence” of the outdated constructing.

Being impressed by Belgian brutalism, the uncovered blockwork with extremely recycled content material delineate the entire perimeter of the location as a uniting theme and contriving ascetic domesticity. The blockwork, the metal beams and columns, the ground, and the steel deck – a lot of the supplies have been left true and uncovered. The brand new additions’ façade has been clad in off-white corrugated metal sheets matching to the aluminum coloration of window frames and doorways. This permits the impression of lightness, delicate reflections of the daylight, but in addition echoing of the white components of the encircling city material.

We had been striving to attain a seamless connection between the within and the surface. The profiles of the sliders are minimal visually dissolving the limitations between the inner areas and the backyard. The supplies and coloration palettes, and lighting fixtures which had been used on the outside are the identical as within the inside, enhancing the sensation that each kind a part of one entire.