Diptych
Architecture Residential Greater London, England, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
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1. William Tozer Associates_ Diptych 01 The folded timber form of the roof extension creates a picture-frame view of the surrounding mid-century housing stock. 2966 px 1972 px 960 KB Print - Low res only |
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2. William Tozer Associates_ Diptych 02 3299 px 4961 px 8 MB A4 print |
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3. William Tozer Associates_ Diptych 03 The scheme arranges the three-storey house over four floor levels, each of which is an open-plan space—either physically divisible by concealed doors, or visually divided by overlaps of volumes and planes. 3880 px 8164 px 1 MB A3 print |
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4. William Tozer Associates_ Diptych 04 2985 px 2418 px 543 KB Print - Low res only |
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5. William Tozer Associates_ Diptych 05 Timber cladding to the staircase varies in articulation from a folding plastic solid, to an arrayed stack of rectangles 3516 px 5472 px 5 MB A3 print |
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6. William Tozer Associates_ Diptych 06 Exposed roof structure is painted white to give it the status of a curated found object. 3298 px 4961 px 997 KB A4 print |
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7. William Tozer Associates_ Diptych 07 Bathrooms are presented as rectilinear plastic solids, with white painted exteriors, but incised to reveal ceramic-tiled interiors. 1656 px 2000 px 1 MB Print - Low res only |
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8. William Tozer Associates_ Diptych 08 500 px 752 px 56 KB Print - Low res only |
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9. William Tozer Associates_ Diptych 09 Doors and handles are concealed or minimized to enable building elements of various scales to appear as sculptural volumes. 3008 px 2000 px 5 MB Print - Low res only |
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10. William Tozer Associates_ Diptych 10 From the exterior, the project is visually divided into two parts, presented as formally consistent but materially distinct—one white-painted and one tiled. 3580 px 5404 px 8 MB A3 print |
Description
Diptych
A completed project in Haringey, London by WILLIAM TOZER Associates
The scheme is composed of a primary pair of design interventions—to the roof and ground floor—hinged about a number of smaller insertions to the intervening level. To the exterior, the roof extension is articulated as an abstract, rectilinear volume of the same material as the original building, while to the interior it appears as a single, folded surface of timber. The ground floor intervention captures the open-ended quality of a building in construction, articulating the rear elevation as simply absent.
Supporting this perception, new white and timber rectilinear elements of the interior are visible from the exterior in the manner of a diorama—one of which also physically projects through the picture plane of the absent rear wall. Each of the open-plan floors is divided only by a handful of freestanding planes and objects that are assigned an ambiguous status as both furnishings and sculptural elements.
Details
| Project size | 207 m2 |
| Completion date | 2016 |
Project team
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WILLIAM TOZER Associates | Architect |