Red House
London GB
31/44 Architects
2017
Type
Single family house
Tags
brick, victorian architecture revisited , young architects
Visitability
Visible from the street
Description
Red House terminates an existing Victorian terrace in East Dulwich, creating a three-bedroom, three-storey split-level 137sqm dwelling on a tight site with many pressures of overlooking. In many ways humble and deferential to the existing neighbouring houses, referencing existing forms and patterns, it is also bold and highly individual. The warm red brick, used locally as a highlight material, creates a striking facade, paired with a high-relief load-bearing concrete panel pigmented to match. Internally, spaces and views are carefully curated to ensure that light and greenery permeate the plan at all levels. A subtle interior palette punctuated by glimpses of external red brick and a darker ground floor datum - both reminders of the distinctive frontage and trace of the excavation to create the house - forms a blank canvas for the buyer to make their own. (Description provided by the architects)