This self-build project for the practice director Jake Edgley?s own family home, was initiated, designed and contracted by Edgley Design. 

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Architects: Edgley Design

Location: London, United Kingdom

Architects In Charge: Jake Edgley, Andrew Ingham

Area: 425.0 sqm

Project Year: 2012

Photographs: Jack Hobhouse

© Jack Hobhouse

This self-build project for the practice director Jake Edgley?s own family home, was initiated, designed and contracted by Edgley Design. 

© Jack Hobhouse

The concept  began with a 100 year old pear tree, a remnant of the site?s history as a Victorian fruit orchard. The house has been built around the tree, creating an internal courtyard that brings light and air to the centre of the plan, while turning the house inward to remain private from the surrounding terraced houses. 
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The site is long and thin, and the layout is arranged around the changing light of the day, with the kitchen looking to the north east for morning light, the living areas looking south west onto the pear tree courtyard for light from midday, and the lowered snug in the centre of the building as a cosy retreat in the evening. 

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