Mansion House, Roehampton Gate

A musical family wished to create an exciting theatrical house which offered up various interesting spaces in which they could sing or perform. This was to include a large jamming room and recording space, but also several spaces where impromptu sing-alongs or performances could be undertaken. Although the rear garden of the plot was extensive, consideration was to be given to create several more private external spaces for relaxation.

An unorthodox vertiginous top-lit side hallway was proposed, providing access to all levels of accommodation within the property. This was accessed via a discrete inset on the monolithic northern front facade. The grand hallway gave views through to the rear garden, but also access to each of the separate zones in the home. A double height acoustically isolated jamming and performance space backs on to the blank front facade, with openable acoustic corridors from the bedroom zones providing the opportunity for viewing and listening from higher levels. Bedrooms then open up to individual private south facing terraces, with access to a roof-top swimming pool. Access to each level of bedroom accommodation is via staircases within the grand linear hallway.

An open plan south facing kitchen and dining area opens on to a large enclosed courtyard with a further private bathing pool. The other side of the courtyard is formed by the return wall from a formal lounge, with access to a separate private courtyard and the same pool. The grand hallway drops in level through the property so that the lounge level has a balcony projecting over and across it, providing a further performance space with a grand piano sitting beside an opening glazed wall to the garden. Wall heights are enhanced for drama, with glazed areas abstracted to read as voids against a series of flat plane walls. A rigorously rectilinear floorplan is then offset against a more abstract section to create a series of interesting spaces of varying height, light and drama.

A musical family wished to create an exciting theatrical house which offered up various interesting spaces in which they could sing or perform. This was to include a large jamming room and recording space, but also several spaces where impromptu sing-alongs or performances could be undertaken. Although the rear garden of the plot was extensive, consideration was to be given to create several more private external spaces for relaxation.

An unorthodox vertiginous top-lit side hallway was proposed, providing access to all levels of accommodation within the property. This was accessed via a discrete inset on the monolithic northern front facade. The grand hallway gave views through to the rear garden, but also access to each of the separate zones in the home. A double height acoustically isolated jamming and performance space backs on to the blank front facade, with openable acoustic corridors from the bedroom zones providing the opportunity for viewing and listening from higher levels. Bedrooms then open up to individual private south facing terraces, with access to a roof-top swimming pool. Access to each level of bedroom accommodation is via staircases within the grand linear hallway.

An open plan south facing kitchen and dining area opens on to a large enclosed courtyard with a further private bathing pool. The other side of the courtyard is formed by the return wall from a formal lounge, with access to a separate private courtyard and the same pool. The grand hallway drops in level through the property so that the lounge level has a balcony projecting over and across it, providing a further performance space with a grand piano sitting beside an opening glazed wall to the garden. Wall heights are enhanced for drama, with glazed areas abstracted to read as voids against a series of flat plane walls. A rigorously rectilinear floorplan is then offset against a more abstract section to create a series of interesting spaces of varying height, light and drama.