Copper Addition to Courtyard House
North Wales
Services
- Architecture
- Interiors (with client)
Team
- Client: Private Home
- Structures: Elliot Bond Consulting
Area
- Existing Refurb: 170 sqm
- New Build: 65 sqm
Cost
- Undisclosed
Project Overview
Architectural Emporium designed a new build addition to a listed Grain store, barn and bungalow in North Wales. The scheme completes the courtyard and reimagines the landscape around the buildings to enhance functionality and aesthetics.
Footage by John Paiva
Architecturally, the new form mediates between the geometry of adjacent structures, with a glazed link between forming a dining and seating area. The main volume features a new lounge, entrance and WC, with the front door relocated to allow the courtyard to be used as a garden as opposed to a parking area. The former lounge is converted to a master bedroom and new copper bay windows are incorporated to provide window seating areas overlooking the garden.
The external envelope is sensitively re-imagined with the copper additions complimenting the existing brickwork and glazed links echoing the timber framing. The new build lounge is set down within the concrete plinth with concrete walls to plinth level. It features an offset inverted pitch and copper cladding.
"Architectural Emporium did a great job of interpreting our brief on the extension, and we now have an amazing family space that links so well to the garden – I think Rach is finally happy living in the countryside."
Richard, Home Owner
