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Form_art Architects specialise in innovatively revamping, restoring and repurposing historical buildings.
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BLACKBOX is a virtuous example of their design approach. The starting point for Blackbox was a traditional London “mews” – a street of Georgian and Victorian stables now converted into desirable housing.
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In this case they have designed a single-family home that combines its clear contemporary stamp in terms of form, with traditional brickwork.
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The ground floor is an open gallery arranged around an inner courtyard that turns into a sphere of light. The openings of the house’s wrapping blend interior and exterior, assisted by the decision to use exposed bricks on the inside bearing walls as well.
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The staircase is a key feature of the whole arrangement, a wooden sculpture that provides a journey up to the next floor, where a white box “floats” behind the double height windows over the courtyard.
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Blackbox is a great example of how it is possible to integrate the design style of the third millennium without disturbing the historical fabric of its surroundings.
Project: Form_art Architects http://www.formartarchitects.co.uk
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/F_aArchitects
Location: London, UK
Year: 2013
Photography: (c) Timothy Soar - Courtesy of Form_art Architects