"Specialists in historical resuscitations with a modern-minimalist purity, the Tuckey team led by architect Mariza Daouti were tasked with rethinking the setup as a full-time family home and recording studio. It was a tall order. Despite the property's vibrant past, here's what they faced: "a cold and leaky stone building fragmented by poorly constructed 1980s extensions...Wool Hall had evolved into an amalgamation of many materials, eras and styles, the coherence of the original layout lost beneath layers of unsympathetic additions.""
""The project was threefold, a restoration, a retrofit and an adaptive reuse," the architects told Dezeen. "We had plenty of creative freedom due to its state of deterioration and [the addition's] lack of architectural merit; the challenge was to make these venerable opposites distinct in their own right but complementary as part of the same home." Many months of work later, the place is an eccentric but elegantly integrated mix spanning centuries, a little bit Elizabethan, a little bit rock 'n roll. Let's take a look."
A 16th-century Somerset wool hall evolved into one of the UK's premier recording studios before a comprehensive overhaul to serve as a permanent family home and studio. Famous artists such as Tears for Fears, Van Morrison, The Cure, The Smiths, Annie Lennox and Joni Mitchell recorded there. An anonymous musician-owner commissioned Tuckey Design Studio, led by Mariza Daouti, to restore, retrofit and adaptively reuse the deteriorated property. Work addressed a cold, leaky stone core and unsympathetic 1980s extensions, aiming to make historic elements and modern additions distinct yet complementary. The result blends Elizabethan character with rock'n'roll heritage and minimalist design.
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