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What do you take away from the project that you will
apply in future?
The things that are important on any of our houses apply,
regardless of the budget, size of the site, or the house.
It’s really just a sense of calm and openness and good
relationships between indoors and outdoors. Really good
planning. There’s no corridors in this house. There’s no
wasted space and I think, in doing that, you’ve got more
money to spend on things like full-height glass. The thing
we take away is that any house deserves the same level
of attention and the same sort of architectural rules.
Your glass balustrade staircase exemplifies material
consistency and minimal material palette throughout.
We followed through with the interior so that the handrails
for the staircase are a frameless glass event. It looks like a
folded glass sculpture on the lower level. The complexities
of the planes and how that works and the simple finishes of
formed concrete with the glass, and chrome patch fittings
all come together into something we’re quite proud of.