The Painted House by Jonathan Woolf Architects and Bharat Patel

想象力的再利用很少能在这么大的范围内完成。伦敦北部的彩绘屋源于一个前所未有的机遇，它藏在一条安静的住宅区街道上。通过使用大开的门，当开放是可取的时候，无缝地折叠，这两座房子也可以保持分开和谨慎。内饰也是一个精细化的练习，每一个表面和交点都缩减到最小。这座房子是一幅空荡荡的画布，为忙碌的家庭生活提供了舞台，等待着动画片。

The architects were tasked with restructuring two semi-detached houses for a large extended family, exploring architectural innovations on what has become a generic design

The house's name derives from the attention shown to painted surfaces

The rear of the building has an expansive opening which looks out onto the garden. The house is built within the footprint of the old properties, both of which had been extended previously

The house is full of intricate details which are specifically designed with functionality at the forefront of family life: such as the kitchen fan, built to eliminate noise

Created for two brothers, their families and grandparents, the properties are minimally refined and include study and recreation places for children, and ground floor accommodation for grandparents

The conventionally shaped interior is given an intentionally abstract character by having almost every surface either painted or laminated to match the paint

The Painted House continues Jonathan Woolf's line of innovative residential works; carefully questioning the relationship between expansive continuous space and a functioning aesthetic