House of Trace, TSURUTA ARCHITECTS TSURUTA ARCHITECTS Minimalist bathroom
House of Trace, TSURUTA ARCHITECTS TSURUTA ARCHITECTS Minimalist bathroom

HOUSE OF TRACE TSURUTA ARCHITECTS

The
demolition of the original extension and its replacement called for an intervention that can be a part of the original main building without replicating classical vocabulary or gesture. Our intent was to keep a sense of everyday memory, while simultaneously allowing the new intervention to have its own identity.

The original extension had no distinct historical or architectural value, and was structurally unsound, but it had a sloop roof profile typical of those found in terrace house back gardens. We chose to incorporate this banality in the new face of the rear garden – in a way persevering its charm to carry some sense of associated memory to those who know it or those who see it new.

One of the existing walls had been leaning at a displacement of about one brick thick towards an adjacent building. These significant old movements were registered as cracks on the leaning wall and have now been revealed and retained within the corridor.

The structures of the new envelope have been exposed internally wherever practically possible, so that these surfaces will register the future stories of the house. The hand marks of bare plaster finish is left exposed in the bedrooms are now registered on the internal faces of the building’s fabric. The slow patination of bespoke copper and brass fittings shows the passage of time as they change from their original colour. By registering these notions of memories and stories, the clutters of daily life could fully inhabit the space.

The materials used are;

Facing bricks, exposed steel, white cement concrete, aluminium timber composite frame windows

pine board panels, Birch plywood, Melamine plywood, Coloured MDF (solid),

Glazed subway tiles, Copper pipes with brass garden taps

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