Fin House
Fin House is a new house initially designed by a developer in Central London. Our client purchased the house as the superstructure was nearing completion and approached the practice with the brief of completely redesigning the interiors, including floor plans, and with a subtle transformation of the envelope without radically altering the elevations that were granted planning permission prior to our appointment.
The key idea of the proposal is to create an open plan ground floor, containing living room, study and a kitchen and dining area. Sitting in the centre, and running through the house from basement to first floor is a steel ‘sculpture’ that forms the stairs. It sits on the ground floor as a separate element and is wrapped with shelving towards the study and fins that penetrate the ceiling towards the first floor. This colourful screen gives the ‘sculpture’ a distinctive character of its own, while maintaining a degree of visual permeability between the dining area and the living space. The emphasis or drama of the project is very much about the stairs; both
in form and colour. We produced numerous of images and models of the stairs in different colours and sometimes with combined colours to see how it would look against the simpler background colours. in the end we felt that the bold blue accentuated the monolithic form presence of the stairs.
The other rooms in the house also have an atmosphere of their own with bespoke colours, tiles and lacquered veneer treatments to joinery. The changing room in basement receives natural light through glass floor panels adjacent to the rear glass doors at ground floor and the master bedroom is lit by an external light well that works as a patio.
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