Architecture Wednesday: The Makers House

This is the Makers House, so-called because of Liddicoat & Goldhill, the architectural firm behind the design, and their commitment to hand-assembled materials. The home sits on a street of semi-detached villas a short walk away from Victoria Park Village, Well Street Common and London Fields.

The house has an elegant asymmetry, with its zinc roof sloping in response to the movement of daylight. The outer skin of Roman brickwork extends inside and combines beautifully with exposed structural steel and timber beams.

The home is 2,387 square feet spread over four floors. The top floor holds two bedrooms that share a bath, while the primary bedroom, and bathroom, are on the second floor along with another bedroom with its own en suite. The ground floor features a multi-level ‘broken plan’ arrangement that contains a west-facing sitting room  which looks down onto the hand-built kitchen and dining area. The rear façade at ground level is constructed from three large pivoting glazed doors which open out to the courtyard garden. In the basement level is a larder room, utility closet and a moody lounge TV room.

To add to a sense of richness and history to the home Liddicoat & Goldhill used richly colored durable Rhodesian mahogany parquet floor reclaimed from Hove Fire Station in the 1970s on the upper floors. On the modern side of the design, the architects took a scientific approach to maximize natural light in the living spaces and modeled the site and its surroundings to allow them to adjust the building’s form and windows to capture sunlight at key parts of the day.

I love the rustic, and the sleek design, and the materials used, but, man, four floors? And no elevator??

Still, it can be yours for £2,750,000, er, $3,165,250.

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