Canal House
William Tozer Associates Limited · London, United Kingdom · 2024
Projects / Project
Periscope
A concrete courtyard, raised garden and white-panelled rooms form a connected sequence in Hackney.
The Periscope kitchen opens onto a concrete courtyard through full-height glazing.
- Practice
- William Tozer Associates Limited
- Photographer
- WILLIAM TOZER Associates
- Project size
- 80 m²
The project
At Periscope in Hackney, London, WILLIAM TOZER Associates extended and refurbished a terrace house around a sequence of indoor and outdoor spaces. The 80 m² project uses white timber panelling, render and polished concrete to connect the new rooms with the courtyard.
The concrete floor continues outside, where a staircase leads from the lower courtyard to a raised garden. Walls and planters give these outdoor areas the scale of rooms. Glazing allows views back through the house and across the changes in level.
White-painted panelling encloses the hallway and storage, adapting a familiar Victorian building element through simpler detailing. Timber also links the landscape and the building: decking in the garden repeats the cladding of the ground-floor shower room, extending the material palette across floors, walls and roof surfaces.
The courtyard steps and brick boundary are visible from inside Periscope.
White vertical panelling encloses storage below a high window at Periscope.
Paved garden space extends the concrete material palette at Periscope.
The white rear addition meets the Victorian brick house at Periscope.
Credits
- Architect
- William Tozer Associates Limited
- Photographer
- William Tozer Associates Limited
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