O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects Extend A Dewsbury Road Home

The main desires of the client were to implement a seamless relationship between the home and the garden and to open up the previously partitioned living and dining areas into a more versatile singular volume. O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects explain, “The response of the re-structured room places emphasis “The re-structured room places emphasis on the connection with the garden”on the connection with the garden, with the dining area incorporated into the facade of deep vertical oak fins, whose rhythm on a brick plinth provides direct views out yet sideways privacy.” The studio has used a simple material palette of various woods, assembled as storage units and cladded finishings by a local family-run workshop, which creates a homely atmosphere of warmth and enclosure. Exposed oak beams are integrated as a structural and decorative feature in the ceiling, spanning across a skylight that immerses the space in daylight and invites the presence of outside from another perspective.