Exhibition: Looking forward to exhibiting Grain House at the @nlalondon @dont.move.improve at Coal Drops Yard later this summer along with a fantastic set of winners…!

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Work in progress: A test section for a pied-a-terre in west London.

We have been developing options for a 58m2 micro-site: a gap between buildings and under a tree in Earls Court, west London.

This has included testing different ways of creating ‘discrete’ space: different roof profiles, structured green roofs and ways in which daylight falls into the accommodation through the leaves in the tree.

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Expert witness planning inquiry success: In spring last year, Nick was appointed by Lewisham Council planning department to act as the Local Authority’s architectural Expert Witness in the case of a school building that had not been built in compliance with the original consent.

We prepared an assessment of design, townscape and technical matters in response to appeals lodged against the serving of a multi-option enforcement notice and refusal of a section 73 application as well as providing alternative design proposals that could be implemented to remedy the planning breaches.

Following an intense 5-day planning inquiry in March this year which included impassioned evidence from local residents and the school community as well as expert evidence, the appeal decisions were published this week: the council won with the Inspector agreeing with our evidence and upholding both appeals.

Team: Nick Hayhurst, Jamie Wakeford Holder, Marina Konstantopoulou

Timber Triumph. Grain House. Check out this video that @nlalondon @dont.move.improve made of our ‘Grain House’ in Hackney as the winner of the ‘Materiality & Craftsmanship Award’. The link is in the bio .

The video really shows off the spatial and material ideas as well as how the internal spaces open up to the courtyard and garden.

Big shout out to the team:

Project Architect: Holly Crosbie
Project Director: Jon Nicholls
Contractor: Rebuild London
Engineers: @webbyates

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Whoop whoop… We are delighted that Grain House has won the 2021 @nlalondon @dont.move.improve ‘Materiality and Craftmanship’ Award.

The awards citation says:

The prize recognises designs that take particular attention to detail and care when considering materials and finishes: Grain House demonstrates innovative material choices and construction techniques.

Native timber species have been used across the project, the plan configuration is if anything against the grain of a Victorian terraced layout, with a resultantly different sequence of spaces and spatial feel. Walls are of natural and clay plaster, while fully inset timber doors lead out onto the garden, where the extension’s naturally weathered Siberian larch-clad roof is visible, above a charred larch below the canopy.

The studio at the end of the garden echoes the timber-clad theme, providing a convenient space for homeworking, with roof joints rotated in plan to give a roof that gives ornamentation to the structure, plus a picture window back to the main house.

‘I’m very impressed by the detailing of the junction of the roof and the walls. It’s worked very nicely’ – @pgsmurray, Judge.

‘He was saying it’s gnarly, but it’s actually pretty perfect. That’s quite difficult to get right… It’s perfectly intimate’ – Amin Taha, Judge.