SE24: A Home of Colour and Craft
Turner Architects · London, United Kingdom
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E8: A House that Opens and Closes
Turner Architects has remodelled a house in east London around sliding walls that let rooms open up or close down as the household changes.
The rear extension opens fully onto the garden.
- Practice
- Turner Architects
- Photographer
- Adam Scott Images
The project
The house currently belongs to two people, and its plan is deliberately open. Spaces drift into one another: a dressing room can become a music rehearsal space, and a music room can become a cinema.
Sliding walls and emerging thresholds let the layout become more cellular when a family moves in, giving each person a private room within the shared home. Pale timber joinery runs through the house, and the rear extension opens onto a planted garden.
A wood burner sits between built-in shelves in the living room.
A bathroom lit by a rooflight and window.
The dining space looks out through glazed doors to the garden.
The kitchen and dining area combine an island with timber shelving.
Built-in seating surrounds a paved garden terrace.
Credits
- Design
- Turner Architects
- Photographer
- Adam Scott Images
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