A Colourful Extension Inspired By The Humble Brick

Architect and director of Wowowa Monique Woodward has a ‘soft spot’ for retro brick. When it arrived to building an extension for an artwork deco dwelling in Preston for a relatives of a few, she was ready to lean into the historic brick society of the primary construction.

‘Wowowa is generally incredibly sympathetic to the bones, and we try to be as period-correct as we can,’ she claims. ‘We first detect what is wonderful and exciting and ornate and pleasant about the original, current issue of the residence and then we embellish these functions.’

Though the entrance of the household remained intact to include bedrooms and a formal lounge, the rear was ‘almost surgically removed’ and remodelled to match a parents’ retreat, analyze and communal residing quarters.

Lofty ceilings tower at 4.5m substantial, bringing sufficient organic light-weight and back garden views flooding into the most important dwelling, kitchen area and eating place. The main bed room suite is tucked less than the eaves of this new ceiling peak, and is only seen from the backyard.

The colour plan was fully encouraged by the clinkers them selves. The clientele pulled out the raspberry maroon tones from the unique brickwork and well balanced it with a lighter blue to render a bold but balanced palette. 

Artwork deco things plucked directly from the building’s provenance sew the old and new sections of the property together. Monique looked to unique facts like ceiling roses to locate period-acceptable styles and designs that could be utilized to a new house. 

She riffed on these smaller heritage times to make the geometry of the challenge that can be noticed on features like the curved exterior scoops Monique phone calls a ‘reverse turret’. 

‘This challenge is very substantially of the consumers. They were brave plenty of to choose out the colours that spoke to them,’ says Monique of the remaining mix of designs, colors and colours and products that comprise Presto.

‘This job has gotten these an remarkable total of traction and I assume it’s mainly because folks can definitely see that there is a ton of adore and individuality in it. [No-one] ought to be afraid of genuinely leaning into who they are as people and what makes them delighted, since these consumers did just that.’

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