Copper House Cambridge, Butcher Bayley Architects
Copper House Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Property Photos, Butcher Bayley Architects English Building, Architecture
Copper House Cambridge Property
29 May 2022
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, southeast England, United Kingdom
Design: Butcher Bayley Architects
Photos by Matthew Smith
Copper House Cambridge Design
Jury Report
This single storey extension to a Victorian terrace in central Cambridge demonstrates the creative value a good architect can bring to the simplest project.
With space at an expensive premium in the city, this simple housing stock has proven to be adaptive, but needs careful handling to ensure that extension does not throw the older parts of the house into darkness and neglect. What impresses here is that the architects have ensured that the whole house has been considered and integrated into a bravura intervention that opens up the cellular spaces of the original dwelling into a sequence that supports occupation by contemporary family life, with its more complex interactions between work, family, chores and relaxation.
With limited means, the architects have picked the right elements to focus on, and a strong, responsive working relationship with the client has helped select good materials and critical areas of craftmanship: such as the patinated copper cladding of the external envelope and the Italian terracotta tiles from the client?s native Italy. Light is dropped in at tactical points, dramatizing moments like standing at the sink. The new room ...
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