Dow Jones Architects | Poplar Cottage, Suffolk

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A house in Suffolk made of clay and oak

This project is for the reorganisation and extension of a 1920s house on the village green in Walberswick. The rooms in the existing house were small, wth no access into or view over its extensive and mature garden. The remodelling of the house re-connected the garden with its garden, and created a clearer threshold with the public green to the front of the house. To achieve this we substantially demolished the house, retaining only the front and the two flank walls - a planning and conservation area requirement - into which we built a new house.

The new house is oriented to the garden with the principal accommodation opening directly onto it. Upstairs, the bedrooms all open into a withdrawing room, which overlooks the green and the sea.

Dow Jones Architects | Lant Street, Londres

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An apartment in a remodelled victorian warehouse in Borough, London

This project is for the conversion of the top two floors of a Victorian former clog-making factory into a home for a film maker. It makes somewhere from which to withdraw from a busy working life, and a place of reflection which takes advantage of the building's panoramic city views.

The existing pitched roof structure was removed and replaced with two oak box girders, which span the brick walls and create a new horizon at roof level. The box girders are inhabited and provide an organisational structure, creating a territory of enclosure and screening. The space formed inside one girder is a roof top 'thinking room', with views across the terrace and the city beyond. The other girder is glazed to create a room-like window bringing light and volume down to the floor below, as well as a covered terrace at roof level. Different gardens occupy the spaces between these two enclosures.

Dow Jones Architects | Hopefield Avenue, Londres

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The extensive remodelling of a victorian town house in London

This project refurbished and extensively altered a terraced house in Queen's Park. The house was extended into the garden, with a new concrete floor and wall situated under a new rooflight dropping light into the heart of the plan. Oak was used to make floors, joinery and doors throughought the ground floor of the house, with an oak stair leading up through the house. An expansive glazed screen allows the concrete floor to run seamlessly into the garden.