Jealous House
Bookending a terrace of houses on the northern end of a quiet Kennington street, Jealous House is our response to our client's aspirations for a bright, characterful home with flowing open spaces that reach out into both front and rear gardens. While the palette of green glazed brickwork was chosen to complement and extend the existing material palette of the terrace, it also illuminates the garden by bouncing natural light from its faces.
The form of the building allows a series of front-to-back views connecting the two gardens of the house. Our proposals involved replanning a cluttered and compact ground floor plan into a spacious but intriguing sequence that allows the residents of the building to share the open spaces of the living areas, while also enjoying contrasting qualities of light, enclosure, and acoustic privacy.
“We love how the project has totally transformed the sense of space. It’s now open and light with a strong connection to the gardens and of course we love the use of bold materials from the glazed bricks to the mirrored steel soffit.“
– Tobias, our client
Expressing the structural works introduced to support the existing roof, a concrete lintel has been introduced to wrap around the room above all doors and windows, with the new steelwork set on this element to celebrate the intervention into the original self-build structure.
Location
Kennington, South London
Structural Engineer
Blue Engineering
Main Contractor
TW Space Conversions