Surbiton Springs House, Southwest London Property Photos, Wadey Builders New Residential Building
House in Ditton Hill, Surbiton, Southwest London
2 December 2022
Surbiton Homes features in RIBA House of the Year 2022
Surbiton Springs – a contemporary house with an industrial aesthetic in Southwest London – is one of the next two homes to be shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year 2022.
The annual award is presented to the best new architect-designed house or extension in the UK, with the shortlisted houses revealed on Grand Designs House ofprio the Year, Wednesdays at 9pm on Channel 4.
RIBA House of the Year 2022 Winners
15 July 2022
Surbiton Springs is one of the UK’s best new homes
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the longlist for the 2022 RIBA House of the Year. The shortlist and winner are to be revealed on Channel 4’s Grand Designs: House of the Year.
24 June 2022
Design: Surman Weston Architects
Location: Surbiton, Surrey / Southwest London, England, UK
Photos by Johan Dehlin
RIBA Awards 2022 Winning Buildings and Architects
The Surbiton Springs House is one of the 29 winners of the 2022 RIBA National Awards for architecture.
House in Ditton Hill, Surbiton, London
Jury Report
Ditton Hill House is a new-build, two-storey detached house on a suburban street in Surbiton. The client’s brief was for a contemporary two-bedroomed home with an industrial aesthetic, but not simply a minimalist open plan box. Their priority was to create a home with a sense of openness, with generous, flowing living spaces that were able to be subdivided or left open as desired.
The house successfully blends vernacular mock-Tudor and industrial aesthetics into a unique and appropriate hybrid. With its traditional A-frame elevation the house borrows the language of the suburban mock-Tudor, ubiquitous to its locality, and turns it on its head by expressing it in a steel frame – the materiality of modernity. Unusually, the structure is designed to be exoskeletal, expressing the pitched form diagrammatically, as if it were drawn by a child.
The frame is combined with slurried brick infill panels, another nod to mock-Tudor building techniques. The garden elevation, Crittall-style glazing, meanwhile, offers a contemporary twist on the leaded windows synonymous with the mock-Tudor style, combined with the freshness of a Palm Springs summer house. The whiteness of the exterior continues a long tradition of modern white villas and civic buildings in the area dating back to the 1930s.
The deep, angled threshold to the front door leads directly through to the triple-height entrance hall. This voluminous entrance hall acts as a further threshold – a sort of internal courtyard – with deliberately raw materials. Passing from the hallway into the living room, there is a dramatic change in spatial quality, from compression to expansiveness, as the ceiling height increases and panoramic rear windows provide an uninterrupted view of the garden. Internally, the plan responds to the client’s brief by offering a variety of scales and spatial experiences.
As you move through the house, the material palette becomes increasingly warmer, with timber floors and plaster walls acting as counterpoints to the utilitarian, matter of fact, steel roof and floor decks, which Surman Weston saw as a modern interpretation of exposed Tudor timber beams. Upstairs, bedrooms and bathrooms are housed within the ‘loft space’, which, at five metres in height and primarily lit from above and has a peaceful, almost ecclesiastical quality.
The master bedroom opens onto a south-facing covered balcony – a space to enjoy the best and worst of the British weather. The rear elevation acts as a counter-point to the front and responds to its south orientation: clear glazing at the ground and a hit-and-miss brick pattern within the gable providing a more filigree and visually-permeable relationship between inside and out.
The judges were particularly impressed with the clarity of the conceptual approach. The industrial materials have been handled with restraint to provide a calm and sophisticated set of domestic spaces, all of this achieved within a modest budget.
House in Ditton Hill, Surbiton – Property Information
Title: Surbiton Springs
RIBA region: London
Architect practice: Surman Weston
Date of completion: Dec 2019
Date of occupation: Dec 2019
Project city/town: Surbiton
Contract value: Confidential
Gross internal area: 264.00 m²
Net internal area: 247.00 m²
Cost per m²: Confidential
Contractor company name: Wadey Builders
Consultants:
Structural Engineers: Structure Workshop
Environmental / M&E Engineers: Synergy
Ecology Consultants: Astute Ecology
Approved Inspector: MLM group
Awards:
• RIBA Regional Award
• Regional Award Short List
• London Southwest
Photos: Johan Dehlin
Surbiton Springs House, Southwest London images / information from The Royal Institute of British Architects
Location: Ditton Hill, Surbiton, Southwest London London, England, UK
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