Focus House is something of an anomaly in its setting of a traditional Victorian London terrace, its zinc envelope contrasting markedly with the beige Victorian brick work of its environs.
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LocationLondon
ArchitectBere architects
ClientPrivate Client
Project TypeResidential
Structural EngineerTechniker
Structural Timber EngineerKLH UK Ltd
Main ContractorVision Build
PhotographerJefferson Smith
Timber SpeciesSpruce
Timber ElementsSolid timber panel floors, solid timber panel wall, windows, CLT
Focus House is something of an anomaly in its setting of a traditional Victorian London terrace, its zinc envelope contrasting markedly with the beige Victorian brick work of its environs.
The client had acquired a Victorian terrace house and an adjacent wedge shaped plot of land; he commissioned bere architects to design a low-cost, low energy, low-maintenance dwelling on the wedge shaped plot to house his family, fi nanced by the sale of the adjoining property.
The new house was designed to be a radical departure from the infl exible and high maintenance Victorian dwelling that the family had previously occupied.
