A crucial technical constraint was to ensure 100% daylight was maintained in the windows of neighbouring buildings, requiring careful 3D modelling of the overall building form.
Our design approach was inspired by the character and material of neighbouring Victorian villas, and Hampstead's grand Arts and Crafts houses, with their pronounced bay windows, animated rooflines and hung terracotta tiled façades.
The design was entirely generated in 3D CAD as a polygon mesh to resolve the geometric interfaces between built volume, protected light angles, existing building lines, and topography.
The key organising principle of the plan is its central courtyard that opens to the south. This courtyard subverts or 'stretches' the traditional Victorian archetype of deep plan and imposing orthogonal volume, embedding landscap...
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