Blueprint Awards 2019 Winners Announced!
Best Non-Public Project – Residential
Winner: con | form architects, UK
repoussoir, London, UK
Judges’ Comments
Small but perfectly formed, a great example of how strong architectural principles and concepts can work at minuscule scale. The interplay of materials and volumes is inspired and unique.’ Tina Norden
‘Bold and elegant with impeccable detailing.’ Maria Cheung
Repoussoir involves an intervention within the familiar setting of a terraced, brick London house with rear outrigger. It includes a groundfloor rear/side extension, internal reconfiguration and a lowered garden/garden room.
The design objectives for the project included the desire to create a flexible, open plan layout, to make better use of the under utilised side return and to allow greater levels of daylight into the interior living spaces. Rear external walls and internal partitions to the ground floor were removed, dissolving the threshold between inside and outside. This creates one large open-plan space that is both internal and external, house and garden.
To maintain this connection, a unique structural solution of interconnecting, pared back perpendicular steel frames was introduced, with infill frameless roof glazing and glazed aluminium bi-fold doors forming the primary building envelope. A change in level from front to back, along with differing ceiling heights beneath the outrigger, rooflights and historical ceiling heights at the front, introduce a variety of zones and light conditions across the open-plan arrangement. The anthracite frames act as a common factor that is omnipresent, visually connecting all spaces together.
Highly Commended
Camps Felip Arquitecturia, Spain
House 011, Barcelona, Spain
Jackson Clements Burrows Architects, Australia
Monash University Gillies Hall, Frankston, Australia
PAD Studio, UK
Chestnut Farm, Hampshire, UK
Commended
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, China
Yangcheng Lake Villas, Suzhou, China
Finalists
Farrells, UK
Lyons Place, London, UK
Foster Lomas, UK
A Restorative Rural Retreat for Sartfell, Isle of Man, UK
Lipton Plant Architects, UK
The Umbrella Factory, London, UK
Phase3 Architecture and Design, UK
ONE Putney, London, UK
Revery Architecture, Canada
1245 Harwood, Vancouver, Canada
Richmond Bell Architects, UK
The Studio, Wiltshire, UK
Sanjay Puri Architects, India
18 Screens, Lucknow, India
UnitedLab Associates, US
Hadohilljo Townhouse, Jeju Island, South Korea
Vertebral, Mexico
Casa Erasto, Mexico City, Mexico
WilkinsonEyre with Mole Architects, UK
Eddington, Lot 1: North West Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
