Proun House
Architecture Residential England, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
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1. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 01 The composition of four boxes bookending the top and bottom of the original house is most evident looking at the building from the courtyard garden. 3896 px 5506 px 9 MB A3 print |
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2. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 02 Original elements, such as the staircase between the ground and first floors, were retained and treated as found objects to be viewed through the frame of the new architecture. 3008 px 2000 px 3 MB Print - Low res only |
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3. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 03 1973 px 2967 px 2 MB Print - Low res only |
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4. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 04 The view from the front door allows the rear bedroom to the modern first floor to be seen together with the rear extension to the ground floor, of which it is architecturally a satellite component. 3709 px 5564 px 9 MB A3 print |
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5. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 05 3537 px 5306 px 5 MB A3 print |
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6. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 06 Interior elements, such as the kitchen cabinets, are articulated as rectilinear volumes or planes—each finished in a single material. 3952 px 5928 px 8 MB A3 print |
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7. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 07 Like the lower staircase, the original brick party wall is retained and treated as a found object, here viewed through the frame of timber-paneled architectural volumes. 1899 px 2857 px 3 MB Print - Low res only |
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8. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 08 One of the glazed roof openings steps down into the interior, recalling the corner windows of Carlo Scarpa’s Canova Museum. 5896 px 3931 px 8 MB A3 print |
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9. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 09 The interior volumes and planes are variously finished with a white paint finish or timber paneling. 3537 px 5306 px 5 MB A3 print |
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10. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 10 4000 px 6000 px 9 MB A3 print |
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11. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 11 5880 px 3920 px 6 MB A3 print |
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12. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 12 Detailing of glazed openings is consistent between the roof and walls of the boxes, and between these new architectural interventions and the original building. 1871 px 2100 px 146 KB Print - Low res only |
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13. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 13 The architectural composition is continuous from inside to outside, and between new and original architectural elements. 2504 px 3200 px 121 KB Print - Low res only |
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14. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 14 The frameless window of the rear first-floor bedroom presents the neighboring original building stock as if it were a painting or photograph on the wall. 3848 px 5772 px 9 MB A3 print |
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15. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 15 5556 px 3704 px 6 MB A3 print |
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16. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 16 The design strategy is not only continuous from the top to the bottom of the house, but also from the street frontage through the interior to the back of the courtyard garden. 2100 px 2100 px 139 KB Print - Low res only |
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17. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 17 Interior spaces are open-plan, but overlapping volumes and planes zone shared areas, and conceal doors to allow private spaces to be enclosed. 2002 px 2500 px 137 KB Print - Low res only |
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18. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 18 The material palette references the traditional use of slate and white-painted render in London terrace houses, but both materials are shifted in scale and distribution to support the modern composition. 3260 px 4891 px 7 MB A4 print |
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19. William Tozer Associates_ Proun House 'Before' Rear extension before construction works 640 px 480 px 125 KB Print - Low res only |
Description
A completed project in Chiswick, London, by WILLIAM TOZER Associates
This house for a pop musician and his growing family is the result of the extension and complete renovation of a three-storey terrace house. Externally, the design is composed of four stacked boxes—two white and interlocking to the ground floor, and two slate-clad and closely nestled on the second floor. All the boxes are incised by rectilinear glazed openings to their walls and roofs—and matching openings were made to the original building envelope. This compositional strategy continues on the interior, where walls and cupboards are articulated as white or timber-clad rectilinear volumes and planes. While the intensity of the architectural composition is greatest at the rear of the ground floor, the same design strategy is deployed at varying intensities throughout the rest of the house. This spatial scattering of a single compositional strategy recalls the ‘Proun’ work of the early twentieth-century artist El Lissitzky.
Details
| Project size | 147 m2 |
| Completion date | 2017 |
| Building levels | 3 |
Project team
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WILLIAM TOZER Associates | Architect |