{"id":142266,"date":"2024-02-09T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-always-dreamed-of-building-our-own-house-so-we-did\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T18:09:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T11:09:35","slug":"we-always-dreamed-of-building-our-own-house-so-we-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-always-dreamed-of-building-our-own-house-so-we-did\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We always dreamed of building our own house \u2013 so we did\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHow architect duo Surman Weston created a striking family home \u2013 complete with a greenhouse on the roofA striking red-brick cube stands on a backstreet corner in Peckham, south London, its walls appearing to dissolve as they rise towards the top, where trailing plants spill through the brickwork, their dangling foliage giving it\u00a0the\u00a0air of an overgrown ruin.Part monolithic block, part gossamer screen, this\u00a0arresting house is the work of Surman Weston, a\u00a0pair of young architects who, tired of answering to\u00a0clients and contractors, decided to design and build\u00a0this experimental home themselves.\u201cWe always had a dream of doing a project without a client, and without handing everything over to the builders,\u201d says Percy Weston, who lives in the house with his partner and three-year-old son (although the house is jointly owned with his fellow architect, Tom Surman). \u201cWe wanted to be able to decide things on\u00a0site and experiment live as we went along,\u201d says\u00a0Weston. \u201cSo we put all our life savings, and\u00a0the\u00a0money from our 10 years of practice, into\u00a0giving\u00a0it a go.\u201dThe gamble has paid off. The result is a house where every detail has been lovingly crafted in a way that would have been all but impossible \u2013 or prohibitively expensive \u2013 if done by a regular builder. Downstairs, exposed ceiling joists have been scarf-jointed, a traditional technique that uses wedges of timber, rather than bolts or screws, to join shorter lengths together. They sit on top of a big beam of larch, the log\u2019s surface left scraped and exposed, as if hauled in fresh from the Devon woodland where it was sourced. Screw holes for the noggins (the pieces of wood between the joists) have been filled with little projecting dowels, with the precision of Japanese carpentry. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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