Tree-less Treehouse, North West London Playhouse, Timber Structure, Building, Architecture Photos
Tree-less Treehouse in North West London
23 May 20212
Design: De Matos Ryan
Location: North West London, England, UK

Photos ©Hufton+Crow
Tree-less Treehouse, UK
De Matos Ryan has created an innovative, Tree-less Treehouse in the garden of a North West London townhouse. De Matos Ryan Director Angus Morrogh-Ryan comments, ?Our client was a young family, who lamented the loss of an ailing tree in their neighbour?s garden. The children longed to have a treehouse but were prevented from doing so by having no trees of their own. The brief was therefore to design a treehouse without a tree.?

The new, 4.1m high space was designed in collaboration with the client?s children. Their unencumbered view of the world acted as a catalyst to a highly innovative and imaginative concept. Ideas were developed around creating a den that could only be accessed by children with an elevated look-out or crow?s nest. The children?s favourite cartoon, Danger Mouse, heavily influenced the design. Danger Mouse?s reluctant assistant and sidekick Ernest Penfold is a timid, bespectacled hamster with the codename ?Jigsaw?, because at the first sign of danger, he falls apart. The playful new treehouse was going to be Penfold?s hide out. His codename gave license to develop a geometric frame that looks exactly like the way it was built.
De Matos Ryan?s starting point was to design an entirely expressed ti...