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dezeen (unofficial)Thorpeness Beach House by IF_DO is a multi-generational holiday home
London architecture studio IF_DO has built a seaside retreat in Suffolk, England, which allows three generations of one family to come together.
Thorpeness Beach House is a two-storey holiday home designed with multi-generational living in mind.
Thorpeness Beach House is a holiday home in Suffolk
The owners, couple Ben and Louisa Brown, envisioned the house as a place where they and their extended family could come for weekends and holidays.
IF_DO's design gives them a six-bedroom property with two separate bedroom zones. A ground floor suite provides space for grandparents and guests, while rooms upstairs are reserved for the younger members of the family.
It is situated close to the beach, near a patch of woodland
The house is situated on a scenic stretch of coastline, set between the beach and a patch of woodland.
The design is not only designed to capture views of this setting, but also to be practical for the types of outdoor activities that come with it, like surfing and hiking.
Glazed facades at the front and back allow the living space to open up
The living and dining space is located in the centre of the building, sandwiched between bedroom and utility areas. Sliding glass facades at the front and back allow occupants to completely open this space up to the elements.
There's also a spacious first-floor balcony that offers impressive views.
Tiled flooring creates a robust ground floor surface
"The house was designed as a beach house, not as a family home," explained architect and IF_DO co-founder Al Scott.
"The house has two clear modes – open and closed – which drove the concept for the deliberately stark contrast between the solid masonry facades and the huge expanse of glass in between," he told Dezeen.
"When you're in the bedroom or utility areas, you are totally private and focused on the garden. Meanwhile the space in-between is semi-public, making it very sociable and clearly a zone for connecting with the landscape, the weather and passers-by, which is what Thorpeness is all about."
An olive green tone was chosen for the kitchen
Robust materials were chosen for finishes both inside and out, to ensure the building can withstand the regular exposure to coastal winds, sand and sea.
Exterior walls are formed of pale-toned bricks, arranged in two different bonds to give the building a feeling of distinctiveness.
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Oak frames the windows and clads the first floor volume, while the interior finishes include large-format floor tiles, an olive-green-hued kitchen and a wooden staircase.
Gabion walls filled with rocks were also installed, with one marking the garden boundary and a second providing screening for the glazed facade.
The house contains six bedrooms, split between two zones
"The bricks were selected for their subtle white-washed buff tones," said Scott. "Together with the pale Siberian larch cladding, they respond to the dusty pale hues of the sand and gravel from which the building emerges."
"The gabion stone walls in the landscape, together with the carefully selected native planting were a further nod to the special qualities of the site and context," he added.
Similarly muted tones echo through the furniture choices, selected by interior design studio LVV Designs.
A free-standing bath features in the main upstairs bedroom
Thorpeness Beach House is the first completed house project from IF_DO, which was founded in 2014 by Scott along with Sarah Castle and Thomas Bryans.
Other projects the trio have worked on include the Dulwich Pavilion for London Festival of Architecture, workspace and incubator The Hithe, and St Teresa's Sixth Form Centre.
Scott describes the house as "both poetic and practical".
A first-floor terrace offers sea views
"The expansive terrace spilling out east and westwards is an amazing place to be; when fully opened up, the living room effectively blends into the surrounding landscape, which is magical," he said.
Other recent residential projects in the Suffolk area include a pavilion-style holiday home by Norm Architects and an off-grid barn-style home by Studio Bark.
Photography is byNick Dearden.
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IF_DO designs "demountable and reusable" incubator for start-ups in London
Timber planks in shades of green cover the exterior of The Hithe, a workspace and incubator for start-ups in London designed by architecture studio IF_DO.
Low-cost and entirely demountable, The Hithe was commissioned by Southwark Council to occupy a redundant site in Rotherhithe for up to 11 years, after which it will be relocated.
The Hithe is a demountable community space and incubator that was designed by IF_DO
"Designing a decade-long meanwhile building of a high architectural standard, to be delivered on a very tight budget, was always going to be challenging," said IF_DO co-founder Thomas Bryant.
"We added to that the ambition to make it demountable and reusable."
It was designed to house start-ups
With 12 workspace units – one of them occupied by Meanwhile Space – a central gathering area, kitchen and a yard to the north of the site, the building has been designed to avoid the appearance of being temporary.
A simple timber and steel frame developed in collaboration with structural engineer Elliott Wood and fabricator Weber Industries sits on existing foundations from the site's previous uses, reducing the amount of new concrete used.
IF_DO clad the building in green painted timber
Two large lantern windows, as well as green finishes on the building's exterior and boundary fences have been used to help create a new "landmark in the streetscape" that aims to increase footfall along the nearby Albion Street.
"One of the key desires from the community was that the building shouldn't look temporary," explained Bryant.
"They did not want it to feel like another construction site, so shipping containers and temporary site offices were ruled out at the outset," he continued.
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Inside, the structural frame and services have all been left exposed to create open, bright spaces, with IF_DO using the opportunity to test ideas for relocatable micro-work units that could be replicated elsewhere.
Ten smaller workspaces occupy the ground floor, while above two larger spaces take advantage of the light and ceiling height created by the lantern windows at either end of the building.
The building can be completely demounted and deconstructed
All of these workspace units are accessed externally, with an access stair and deck on the northern side of the building connecting the upper spaces, in order to reduce the need for circulation space.
"The need for affordable workspace and the availability of vacant lots for temporary usage is a reality in many places, and especially so in London, so it's a model which we expect to be replicated quite widely," said Bryant.
The interiors employ a simple and paired back look
IF_DO was founded in 2014 by Bryant, Sarah Castle and Al Scott.
Previous projects by the studio include a sixth form college in Surrey that surrounds a central courtyard with a wooden colonnade, and a geometric extension to a flat in London.
The photography is byMike Massaro.
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