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Garden House in de Beauvoir
New Home in East London: Hackney Residential Property ? design by Hayhurst and Co, Architects
10 + 9 Dec 2016
Garden House by Hayhurst and Co
Design: Hayhurst and Co
Location: North East London, South East England, UK
Garden House, de Beauvoir, Hackney

photos : Killian O’Sullivan
The Garden House replaces a single storey workshop built by the Clients in the mid-1990s. The brief was to form a home and studio; which maximised the space and natural light available within their tight 85 square metre site behind Victorian housing in Hackney?s de Beauvoir Conservation area.

The house is entered through a winter garden flooded with top-light from a mirror-polished stainless steel clad rooflight. This leads on to a connected set of living spaces lit by natural light through strategically placed and sculptured rooflights. These give the ground floor an ethereal quality of light, which sets off the careful selected material palette. The clients? art collection is displayed on bespoke steel shelves that continue on to a folded steel staircase that is carefully disengaged from the wall, to allow natural light to pass behind it. The upper room is lined with oak panelling, forming a workshop for sewing and embroidery, as well as a fitting room for visiting clients. This space is naturally lit from a large central rooflight.
The roof is a bespoke hanging...