Homes
Which page would you keep.
Look until one room is the one you want. Then send the drawing.
Homes · The book
01
The room gets larger from this wall.
One push, and the lawn is in the living room. What follows is how the glass finishes the house.
Plate · Lift-and-slide
The living room is one door.
F150TS, toward the water or the lawn.
Plate · Stone and glass
The solid wing stays.
The glass is the room.
Plate · Corner
Two storeys. One corner.
Built as an MQ65 curtain wall.
Plate · Full height
One bay, glazed through.
The wing beside it stays quiet.
Plate · The street
A brick house. One slide.
The ground floor opens. The neighbours stay in the frame.
Plate · The garden
Brick below. Timber above.
One slide to an ordinary lawn.
Plate · Punched openings
Punched openings on an ordinary street.
Aluminium set in the wall. One opening is the door.
02
Last year this room was not here.
This evening it is lit. See where the new wall meets the old brick, and which wing you would keep.
Plate · The house
The house, and the room it was missing.
A wing on the back. A room still in the garden.
Plate · Solid rear
Insulated walls. Sensible glass.
One storey, on the house that is already there.
Plate · Kitchen
Cook and eat in one volume.
The opening is a door. The walls hold the heat.
Plate · Side return
The narrow strip beside a terrace.
The new wall meets the old brick on the drawing.
Plate · Full rear
The whole rear, one wing.
Openings stay limited.
Plate · Two storeys
Living below. Rooms above.
Still one house.
Plate · Punched windows
Windows, not a glass wall.
Evening light where the rooms need it.
03
The day ends at the end of the path.
The screens are on. The house stays outside.
Plate · Office
One slope. One desk.
The compact office, glazed before it leaves.
Plate · At the desk
Screens on. The house stays outside.
Daylight from the garden side.
Plate · Gym
Kit on the solid wall.
Glass toward the lawn. Not a garage.
Plate · Yoga
A clear floor.
The same shell, without the rack in the middle.
Plate · Studio
Light from above.
A room for work, apart from the house.
04
You will walk this every day.
Oak underfoot. Aluminium where the eye does not stop. The run you want is just ahead.
Plate · The hall
Oak, black metal, glass.
The stair the hall is built around.
Plate · Straight
Oak treads. Timber handrail. Aluminium posts.
The hall stair. The most specified flight in a house.
Plate · Quarter turn
One turn. Room under the flight.
The British terrace. Oak treads and slim black aluminium rods.
Plate · Half turn
Two flights. One landing.
The family house. Oak, black aluminium, glass where the void needs light.
Plate · Open stringer
Oak treads. One black aluminium beam.
The new-house void. No risers. The beam carries the treads.
Plate · Glass and oak
Oak handrail. Glass in an aluminium channel.
The bright hall in Britain and Scandinavia.
Plate · Spiral
Oak treads on a black aluminium column.
Lofts and mezzanines. The geometry is checked against the local code.
05
They leave. This wall stays.
Fins by the water, at the hour you would rather not go in.
Plate · The room
Dark aluminium. A warm floor.
The room, before the wall is specified.
Plate · Pool
A row of fins. Evening stays outside.
Champagne aluminium, beside the water.
Plate · Facade
The wall runs to the door.
One surface. The joint stays visible.
Plate · Living room
The door disappears into the wall.
The other walls stay plaster.
Plate · Garden veil
Perforated. The roses still show.
A screen, not a closed wall.
Plate · Arrival
One fold, over the door.
A canopy, made from the same aluminium.
Plate · Dining
Aluminium only to the sill.
Glass above. One band you can specify.