YINJISPACE use media professional’s unique perspective,try to explore the essence of life behind the design works.
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YINJISPACE use media professional’s unique perspective,try to explore the essence of life behind the design works.
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Architecture and interior design studio, McLaren.Excell completes a front facade retention and new build project in South West London, transforming a family townhouse into a unique piece of architecture with cathedral-like scale, 6 metre high rooms and an aesthetic blend of striking design and familial function.
Two years in the making, the townhouse encapsulates McLaren.Excell's approach to material-driven design and client collaboration. Retaining the facade for conservation purposes, behind the traditional Victorian frontage is a multi-purpose modern family home that is anything but traditional.
The property, 360 SQM, completely reimagined, including a whole new basement which extends into half the length of the garden, has a unique floorplan that plays out across multiple varying levels throughout the house, creating flexibility and freedom for the family but also a bespoke design that turns the traditional terraced house layout on its head.
Spanning four floors, the ground and lower ground floor are home to an expansive open-plan kitchen and dining area that overlooks the recessed rear garden. The space boasts a remarkable 6m high ceiling, with a brick colonnade that runs the length and height of the room, giving the distinct sense of a church or cathedral. Atop the left hand wall of the kitchen and dining area is a suspended concrete walkway and bespoke concrete staircase with integrated metal spindles that descends into the space. Through the design by McLaren.Excell, from certain vantage points within the kitchen the view ascends three storeys through the core of the home.
‘The mezzanine’ above, which accommodates the living room, looks down onto the 750 sq ft kitchen and family dining area, the kitchen itself is made from ash fronts and features a central Shall Gris limestone marble with quartz veins and shell fossilisation island, all designed in-house by the McLaren.Excell studio. The flooring throughout the kitchen, ground and lower ground floor is polished concrete. The timber stairs and flooring in the main living areas is Dinesen Douglas Fir in a White Oil finish, whilst the walls are finished in Pure and Original lime-based paint.
The second floor is home to the children's bedrooms, and the third floor, located in a loft conversion, is home to the primary bedroom suite that extends out over the rear outrigger extension and has far reaching views. Here, there is also an artfully hidden utility space off the landing.
Natural materials are used throughout the property and harmonise the design, unifying it across the floors. This includes the staircase, which, in a move away from tradition, features metal spindles which have been powder coated in light grey, again juxtaposing the norm and familiar Victorian dark wood and dark swindle staircase. The effect is striking and works to keep the space light in tone and feel. The staircase, which runs from the ground to the third floor, was moved in a crucial re-structuring of the layout by McLaren.Excell.
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