Air Home is a challenge that reworked a darkish Victorian London dwelling into a recent area outlined by elegant minimalist structure and optimised performance. The design, by rising Soho-based structure studio Szczepaniak Teh, headed by Nicholas Szczepaniak and Wen Ying Teh, attracts on the constructing’s historical past; on the similar time, it makes the many of the present area, tailoring the inside to Twenty first-century life and opening the area to turn into a contemporary city sanctuary.
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Air Home by Szczepaniak Teh
In growing the Air Home’s design, the structure group was impressed ‘by the neighbourhood’s historical past of being owned by the Clothworkers’ Firm’, in addition to ‘the material architectural installations of artist Do Ho Suh.’ Off the again of this temper board, the studio commissioned a centrepiece for the house: a staircase constructed from one sheet of steel, punctured with 3mm-diameter holes and folded ‘like a bit of material’. This construction is minimally supported by 20 slim steel rods with a thickness of simply 2 sq cm.
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Clear detailing, a comparatively monochrome color palette and fashionable, glossy supplies assist the general method, which goals for an area that feels weightless and easy – framing the centrepiece staircase. ‘[The client] requested for a extra seamless structure, and a way of connection between completely different storeys,’ the architects clarify, and the brand new design actually does that, uniting vistas and ranges by way of openness and design consistency.
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‘We design areas that may shift individuals’s temper and enliven their senses. Even missed areas, akin to staircases and corridors, may be reworked into an expertise. When climbing the steps on the Air Home, you’re feeling as if you’re floating in mid-air. The smallest shift in climate transforms the sunshine qualities in the home, in order that the inhabitants at all times really feel linked to the outside,’ says Szczepaniak.
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