Architect and director of Wowowa Monique Woodward has a ‘soft spot’ for retro brick. When it arrived to planning an extension for an artwork deco house in Preston for a family members of three, she was able to lean into the historic brick lifestyle of the initial construction.
‘Wowowa is normally very sympathetic to the bones, and we try out to be as interval-correct as we can,’ she states. ‘We very first determine what is wonderful and fascinating and ornate and pleasant about the first, existing issue of the household and then we embellish individuals features.’
Though the front of the house remained intact to contain bedrooms and a formal lounge, the rear was ‘almost surgically removed’ and remodelled to healthy a parents’ retreat, research and communal living quarters.
Lofty ceilings tower at 4.5m superior, bringing enough normal mild and yard sights flooding into the key living, kitchen area and dining place. The main bedroom suite is tucked below the eaves of this new ceiling peak, and is only visible from the yard.
The color scheme was absolutely influenced by the clinkers by themselves. The customers pulled out the raspberry maroon tones from the initial brickwork and balanced it with a lighter blue to render a bold but balanced palette.
Artwork deco elements plucked right from the building’s provenance stitch the previous and new sections of the residence collectively. Monique looked to initial particulars like ceiling roses to locate era-proper designs and patterns that could be utilized to a new home.
She riffed on these compact heritage moments to generate the geometry of the venture that can be seen on elements like the curved exterior scoops Monique phone calls a ‘reverse turret’.
‘This project is extremely significantly of the shoppers. They were being courageous more than enough to decide out the colors that spoke to them,’ claims Monique of the closing mixture of shapes, colours and colours and supplies that comprise Presto.
‘This challenge has gotten these kinds of an extraordinary amount of traction and I consider it is simply because individuals can seriously see that there’s a whole lot of appreciate and individuality in it. [No-one] really should be terrified of really leaning into who they are as persons and what helps make them content, due to the fact these clientele did just that.’
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