This north-east London house\u00a0in Highams Park draws on the nearby Epping Forest for its open, natural and colourful architecture approach; welcome to\u00a0Forest House, designed\u00a0by architecture studio AOC. The project, created for a family of five, involved the renovation and extension (rear and side) of an existing semi-detached Victorian house, where...
Taking its cues from the woods of nearby Epping, Forest House is designed by London-based architecture studio AOC
This north-east London house in Highams Park draws on the nearby Epping Forest for its open, natural andapproach; welcome to Forest House, designed by architecture studio AOC. The project, created for a family of five, involved the renovation and extension of an existing semi-detached Victorian house, where the clients had already been living for four years.
A triple-height living space sits at the heart of the new home. It is the place to which the family gravitates most of the time, and encompasses a colourful kitchen and dining area with large openings towards the wild garden , and views of the local skyline and forest beyond. The living space expands into the woven hazel-clad rear extension, whose external skin material was chosen to create a dialogue with the tree-filled area and to invite in plant and wildlife.
In contrast, the front and side façades of the addition are clad in brick, referencing the original period character of the house and a more urban overall feel, but are clearly defined by their white colour, contrasting with the red brick of the home’s existing volumes. This side extension contains the family’s home office, a workspace that sits on the upper level and looks out over a balcony into the dining room on the ground floor.
The use of raw, inexpensive, natural materials was prioritised, with Douglas fir, spruce ply and cork bark dominating floors, walls and bespoke elements throughout, ‘chosen for their colour, associations and sensory delight’, the architects explain.
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