This video shot by architectural photographer Edmund Sumner reveals the pebbledash-covered rooftop studio that architect Sean Griffiths not too long ago added to the postmodern Blue Home in London.
The extension is designed “within the spirit” of the much-lauded authentic home, which Griffiths designed in 2002 as his own residence alongside FAT companions Charles Holland and Sam Jacob.
Clad in pink-toned pebbledash, the addition incorporates a rooftop studio that opens on a pebble-filled terrace supposed to evoke the seashore at Camber Sands. Its tough texture is designed to be in distinction to the pale blue clapboard-patterned fibre-cement partitions of the unique house.
“I am glad that we didn’t simply mimic the aesthetic of the unique home within the extension, that we saved experimenting within the spirit of the unique home however created one thing that contrasted, however labored nicely with the unique,” Griffiths instructed Dezeen.
“I wasn’t positive whether or not that was the suitable method as we have been doing it, however now I believe it was.”
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The movie is by Edmund Sumner.
