Office S&M's "two-faced" Janus House extension is coated with spray-on rubber
Spray-on rubber originally developed for oil rigs coats this London house extension by Office S&M, which features both round and rectangular windows.
The studio headed by architects Catrina Stewart and Hugh McEwen designed the structure to provide a new bathroom and kitchen for a property in Walthamstow, replacing a poorly built lean-to extension that was there before.
The simple volume is designed to relate in scale to the 19th-century house, but is more modern in its material treatment and detailing.
It features two distinct sides, distinguished by their use of different geometric shapes. This led the architects to name the project Janus House, after the Roman god with two faces.
"The 'two faced' nature of the design is exhibited externally by the shape of the window, door and rooflights," the studio pointed out. "The side with circular openings contains the bathroom, while the rectangular side is the kitchen."
The extension's external walls are wrapped in plywood panels and finished with a skin of black rubber that was sprayed on using a device similar to a giant airbrush, to lend the structure a homogenous look and feel.
The material, originally developed for use on oil rigs, was specified in this project because of its durability, affordability and waterproof quality.
Internally, a diagonal storage wall conceals and separates the bathroom, shower and storage from the kitchen and negates the need for dedica...
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