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DF_DC architects . photos: © Gautier Houba

The project is the refurbishment, reconfiguration and extension of a mews house in Northwest London. With a limited budget, the project centred on rearranging the ground floor by creating one main open space for the family in strong connection to the garden, while creating a core to consolidate a cloakroom, utility room and storage, as well as the staircase, in a timber-framed element towards the more restricted front. Continue reading DF_DC

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The Concrete Villa is a single house on the Comano hills, a small village north of Lugano in Switzerland. The plot was previously occupied by vineyards and characterised by an elongated trapezoid form, which determines the volume.
With the interesting views towards the east and west, but with the constraint of having adjacent houses in close proximity toward the north and south, the house is conceived as in inhabited wall. In order to avoid the effect of an excessively long and closed volume but also ensuring a level of privacy, the flank elevations are articulated by a series of deep rectangular fins. Continue reading DF_DC

DF_DC architects . photos: © Rory Gardiner

The Leaning Yucca House is an elegant extension and re-invention of a Victorian semi- detached home in northwest London. Having been previously broken up into flats, the current occupants, a young family, wanted the internal spaces reimagined as one living area with greater connection to the garden. Continue reading DF_DC