![]() ![]() When it was complete, the house won a RIBA award in 1977. ![]() Three further bedrooms are lined up on the street side of the house. The studio's office was situated on the upper floor of the house, as well as the master bedroom, which overlooks the garden.Ī blue spiral staircase leads down to the ground floor where the kitchen and living areas are on either side of the dining room, on the house's garden side. Like many high-tech buildings, the home was designed to be open and flexible and has few permanent internal divisions, instead the spaces are divided by venetian blinds that hang between the internal columns.Īll of the spaces share the same minimal aesthetic with no distinction made between the offices areas and the family's living spaces. These structural elements standout against the grey, troughed metal sheets that make up the house's walls and roof. ![]() ![]() The structure of the 10-metre by 12-metre rectangular house is made from thin, steel columns and latticed steel-trusses that are visible throughout the house and painted blue. Related story Dezeen's introduction to high-tech architectureĪt the Hopkins House the techniques that had been developed at larger commercial buildings were refined for the smaller house. ![]()
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