A Car Collector’s Dream
Our studio has been appointed to develop designs for a high-quality Garden room for our Quatrefoil House - currently completing on-site in Oxford.
Meaning
With the core motivation to deeply understand the requirements of our clients and respond through design solutions that are impactful, emotional and of course personally meaningful.
The position of the annexe looking back at the main home allows for the display of high-performance cars to be displayed as objects of art and desire. Placed on a celebratory concrete plinth these machines are fundamental to our client's work.
This unique project acts to compliment many of the architectural ideas inherent in the main house refurbishment. The quatrefoil motif appears in several locations in the vicinity and specifically on the original Gothic revival building facade, most prominently above the main entrance door. This ornament was used as the starting point for an intensive series of studies and have informed key design details for the main house additions and will be again explored within the annexe design.
Detail Obsession
Within the main house, the quatrefoils were represented in solid bronze, set within a black steel cassette. Within the annexe - the motif will be engraved in relief, providing a subtle connection to the main house.
Secrets + Materials
Access to the annexe is behind a discretely concealed sliding brick door to the main street facade. The interior walls of the annexe are clad in solid bronze panelling, visible from the main home. Engine sounds are dampened by the introduction of a series of deep ceiling fins clad in grey wool, mimicking the intended internal spatial flow of compression and release.
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