Key：Metrostudio Forward Position

项目概况:

The Tree Housewas developed in response to the mother of a busy family who in finding herselfreliant on a wheelchair was also finding herself increasingly confined to asingle room. Her home is apair of small grade II listed 1830’s brick weavers cottages, joined together inthe 1970’s as part of the GLC homesteading scheme. The ground floor rooms ofthe two cottages are on different levels and both a half story above the gardenbehind. The garden wasreached via steps from an opportunistic scaffold verandah on chunky concretecolumns - the legacy of the previous owner, a builder. From here our clientwould spend time looking out from beneath leafy vines across the unruly treeand flower filled gardens, which due south all connected together with openingsfor neighbouring families to pop in and out. The brief was to find a wayof connecting the original ground floor rooms and to provide a new masterbedroom and wet room at ground floor with direct access to the garden whilstkeeping the wonderful informality of the existing family home. We wanted the accessibilityrequirements to be a positive architectural driver making the house better thanit had been previously. To this end we re-centred the whole house around thegarden. The tree house winds down around the trees, cinching itself in to getaround the sumac which sits centrally and breathing out again to accommodate a generousbedroom and bathroom below the eucalyptus. The bedroom faces onto a deck intothe garden, it looks back to the house where the old concrete columns have beenre-used to support a new timber framed glazed verandah, this ramps between thetwo existing ground floor rooms and connects to the tree house. The existingkitchen, people moving through the house and even the street beyond are allglimpsed from the bedroom. The dark timber painted frame of the verandah seemsto recede visually allowing one to see past it to the original brickwork of thecottages rear walls.