This new-build shell space was purchased by Project Orange in August 2011and the fit-out designed as an urban sanctuary studio/office. The concept is a collage of some favourite fragments from recent projects and aims to challenge the sterility of the standard office. The light fittings were first designed for Orange Cottage, while the joinery owes much to our hotel work. The carpet runner was to a design based on a photograph taken in Girona, Spain, of a particularly lovely ecclesiastical building nestled within the historic urban fabric. It was woven for us by Brintons. The industrial concrete floor was installed along with underfloor heating and reflects the concrete ceiling, left 'as found'. The studio is an expression of how we work and see the world, a collection of objects, memories and forms curated to form a hybrid space, layered with meaning.
This new-build 200 sqm timber framed house is situated in the heart of the picturesque Tudor village of Lavenham, Suffolk. All the neighbouring buildings are listed. Located behind an existing brick and flint wall, the form of the house, with its steeply pitched roof, is a version of the local vernacular and continues a rhythm of cascading gables when viewed from the street. The street elevation is intentionally laconic using a simple language of solid oak casements and lime-washed render over a red brick plinth. To the rear the composition of central gable, brick lean-to and chimney is more purposeful and modern. This impression is generated by the arrangement of projecting oak frames, full height glazing and oak panelled screens that unite the windows to the living area and principal bedroom in a single composition and exploits to the full the beautiful views and southerly aspect to the rear. The open plan ground floor is organized on the pin wheel principle around the curved form of a top lit winding oak stair. A music room / library and open kitchen are wrapped around a sunken living area and provide for relaxed entertaining, music making and also home working. The upper floors contain four bedrooms and three bathrooms, the top floor taking full advantage of the soaring volumes within the steeply pitched roof. A limited palette of traditional materials informs the interior, providing texture and grain reminiscent of more historic neighbours, but detailed in a contemporary way. Floors throughout the ground floor are pale brick, those to the upper floors oak. All are warmed with underfloor heating. Doors are full height and, like the windows are oak, the ironmongery bronze. Further detail is provided in the exposed white painted joists to all ceilings. Orange Cottage was a finalist in the Grand Design Awards, and has been extensively published. Awards Grand Designs Awards Best New Build House Finalist 28 September 2007
Project Orange designed a new custom self-build scheme in the village of Ingoldisthorpe, North Norfolk. Working in collaboration with custom build specialist LivedIn, Project Orange was commissioned to develop a scheme for twelve dwellings around an existing pond on a green field site on the edge of the village. The principle of development of the site had been established through a planning appeal and so the detailed proposals were to form the substance of a reserved matters planning application. The scheme won Best Cutom Build Project from Built It. The final scheme proposes 10 detached houses of three primary types together with a pair of semi-detached affordable homes. The houses are simply arranged along two sides of the site and around the pond following a detailed study of rural typologies, village greens and commons. The landscaping, by Area Landscape, builds on the concept of the common and proposes reinforcing the local ecology through the planting of native pines, grasses and gorse and marginals around the pond. The houses are approached from two separate access roads, the limited number of dwellings per road removing the obligation to follow adoptable highway standards and allowing the preferred approach of informal gravel lanes considered more appropriate to the rural setting. The individual house designs vary from 3 to 5 bedrooms and incorporate a variety of open-plan and more cellular areas - and double height voids with options available to support customisation. All houses are essentially vernacular in form but contemporary in detail; featuring steeply pitched roofs with raised gables, substantial chimneys and dormer windows. Large areas of glazing are proposed with the majority of windows full height. Project Orange designed a new custom self-build scheme in the village of Ingoldisthorpe, North Norfolk. Working in collaboration with custom build specialist LivedIn, Project Orange was commissioned to develop a scheme for twelve dwellings around an existing pond on a green field site on the edge of the village. The principle of development of the site had been established through a planning appeal and so the detailed proposals were to form the substance of a reserved matters planning application. The scheme won Best Cutom Build Project from Built It. The final scheme proposes 10 detached houses of three primary types together with a pair of semi-detached affordable homes. The houses are simply arranged along two sides of the site and around the pond following a detailed study of rural typologies, village greens and commons. The landscaping, by Area Landscape, builds on the concept of the common and proposes reinforcing the local ecology through the planting of native pines, grasses and gorse and marginals around the pond. The houses are approached from two separate access roads, the limited number of dwellings per road removing the obligation to follow adoptable highway standards and allowing the preferred approach of informal gravel lanes considered more appropriate to the rural setting. The individual house designs vary from 3 to 5 bedrooms and incorporate a variety of open-plan and more cellular areas - and double height voids with options available to support customisation. All houses are essentially vernacular in form but contemporary in detail; featuring steeply pitched roofs with raised gables, substantial chimneys and dormer windows. Large areas of glazing are proposed with the majority of windows full height. The elevations combine a palette of locally distinctive Carrstone with soft red brick, natural larch or black stained batten on board cladding and red or black pantiles to roofs. These can be combined in a variety of ways in accordance with the principles established in a design code submitted as part of the planning application. This allows the self-build purchasers to customise the elevations both in terms of materials and fenestration. Awards BuildIt Awards Winner 01 June 2021
A forgotten Nissen-type barn in the Suffolk countryside is transformed into a dynamic ecological and clever home. The cladding is replaced with a highly insulated jacket while the interiors are laid out to create open plan living with sleeping accommodation to the rear. A cosy loft bedroom is accessed from a secret door leading to ladder steps.
The client's family business has occupied the premises at 115 Whitecross Street since the 1850s. The original four storey houses date from the 17th century whilst, more recently, additional residential accommodation had been built to the rear of the site overlooking a small park, formed after clearance by second world war bombing. Project Orange were approached with a tripartite brief; to redevelop the rear of the site to create a new family home, to upgrade and renovate the buildings onto the street converting them into rental apartments and to retain and renovate the existing ground floor business use. The aspect of the new-build house is refocused towards the park, opening generous areas of glazing to benefit from long views and light penetration. The glazing, together with the layering and depth of the façade, gives a spatial richness and light to the interior as well as enhancing the adjoining public space. The living areas are raised to first floor level and link the expansive areas facing the park to more intimate zones grouped around enclosed internal courtyards. These in turn flow through to refurbished areas of the existing buildings fronting the street. A sense of security and protection is afforded by the ground floor brick plinth upon which the new house is perched. The cubic forms of the new upper storeys are characterised by an armature of sheet copper cladding from which emerge volumes finished in rustic oak shakes, a reference to the Arcadian landscape of the park. Awards RIBA National Award Winner 12 August 2010 Grand Designs Awards Best New Build House Finalist 11 March 2010 The Design Awards Living Space of the Year Winner 15 May 2009 British Homes Awards Best One-off House of the Year Winner 09 March 2009
Project Orange has collaborated for the fifth time with Raoul's on their new restaurant and delicatessen in Hammersmith Grove, London. The menu, as ever, is fantastic home cooked food overseen by proprietor, Geraldine Leventis, presented and served in an elegant environment. The Deli is a glamorous evocation of a classic food hall on an intimate scale with striking black and white herringbone floors, black-mirrored walls juxtaposed with natural oak, brass and marble. The counters are clad in bespoke woven Lloyd Loom panels and the room is lit by quirky gold pendants. Next door the restaurant is a fine balance of the laid back and the formal in a stylish interior of oak, brass, smoked mirror and white tile including booths, banquette seating, freestanding tables and a bar. The central walls feature a hand painted signature Harlequin graphic together with black mirror and gold fabric privacy screens. To find out more about Raoul’s click here http://raouls.com/
The surrounding rural context to the site in Leiston is dominated by the ruins of St Mary’s Abbey, which date from the fourteenth century and are a scheduled Ancient Monument comprising a number of listed buildings. Following the dissolution of the monasteries in 1536 the Abbey was repurposed as a farm with the construction of a number of new buildings over the following centuries. A number of additional farms are located in the landscape surrounding the proposed development site. Each of these consists of a cluster of agricultural buildings and service yards that are characteristic of the rural Suffolk landscape. The development has been envisaged as a complex of low rise buildings surrounding a shared central yard. The built form is intended to reflect that of the numerous farms and agricultural clusters of buildings located in the area, resulting in a development that is aesthetically familiar and sits comfortably in the Suffolk landscape. The proposed development is to be entirely residential, with a combination of detached, semi-detached and terraced homes of differing floor areas proposed. Individual building forms have been developed to reflect Suffolk precedents, with agricultural forms evoked around the proposed shared yard at the centre of the development and the terrace of cottages reflecting more domestic precedents. This contrast will also be manifest in the detailing of the homes, with domestic features such as chimneys and subdivided windows incorporated into the cottages but avoided in the houses addressing the yard which will feature flues and larger uninterrupted openings. A contemporary language is proposed throughout however, rather than a replication of historic features. A limited palette of materials will unite the scheme, with soft red brick and flint being used for walls together with a combination of black stained and painted timber cladding. This will be predominantly vertical batten and board. Roofs are to be of clay pantiles, with black corrugated metal used for the secondary roofs of the car ports between dwellings along with photovoltaic panels. Rainwater goods will be zinc. Timber front doors, windows and feature panels will be finished in a complementary colour.
Project Orange undertook a research project into alternative housing typologies for a site in Lavenham, Suffolk. The intention was to see if there is an alternative cost effective model that may offer a contemporary response to the special opportunity of the site. The aspect and the aesthetic was considered in the design, as well as cost and sustainable construction. This design is based on the idea of a shared landscape, which is more akin to a (farm) yard. This means that there is less of a suburban feeling to the way the houses are laid out and the landscape in which they sit. When viewed from above it is apparent that the field system around Lavenham is a patchwork of oddly shaped areas, as a result of history, geography and ownership. This creates a certain character that seems worth understanding. Proejct Orange were also drawn to the picturesque nature of the village, and in particular the dymanic roofscapes. The pitch of the roofs as well as the juxtaposition of the buildings gives a unique character to the village. This design takes the themes of the local vernacular and translates it to something more contemporary.
Located within the North Oxford Victorian Suburb Conservation Area, this four storey semi-detached house had been unsympathetically extended in the past to the side and rear. Project Orange was appointed to replace these poor quality extensions, to create better organized and more serviceable accommodation, to improve the quality of the basement living / kitchen areas and to enhance the connection to the attractive west facing rear garden. In addition, new bathrooms were created on the upper floors and all building services were updated. Our solution was to integrate new lean-to side and rear extensions. These wrap the rear corner of the original house and incorporate at basement level a structural glass cube that floods light into the new kitchen. The cube is separated from the main house and party wall by a wide margin of planted roof area that enhances the aspect from the upper floor windows and appears to embrace the glass roof. The cube connects to the rear garden via a sunken dining courtyard and terraced planters that negotiate the change in level. When viewed from the front, the lean-to extension is deferential to the prevalent architectural style of the conservation area and presents a façade of Oxford stock bricks and sliding sash windows below a natural slate roof. To the rear the extension is however much more informal and is clad in grey stained Siberian larch batten and board timber. Internally the side extension provides a utility and wine store at basement level, and a guest bedroom suite above.
West Stow Lodge is a large, new build family home, built on a beautiful three acre plot in West Stow, Bury St. Edmunds. The site is characterised by landscaped lawns, numerous willow trees, and the meandering Culford Stream. The house replaces an existing 1970's dwelling, but largely replicates its siting. This locates the house deep within the plot creating a generous foreground and impressive approach. It also allows an intimate relationship with the stream and is respectful the setting of the adjacent medieval parish church. The proposal is a structured but informal composition echoing the form of a traditional Suffolk Hall House, with a central double height hall and two large cross wings. Red brick, render, tile and oak form the palette of exterior materials with subtle detailing of windows and fenestration used to provide a contemporary counterpoint to this essentially traditional architectural form. Internally, a controlled language of materials and details in oak, stone and bronze is used, complemented by painted tongue and groove boarding and white painted brick. The landscape setting of the house and the garden design have been developed through collaboration with Janey Auchincloss Designs.
Project Orange is working on this refurbishment of a Grade II listed townhouse located in the Hans Town Conservation Area in the heart Belgravia. The property was built in the 1830s and currently has consent for use as a single-family dwelling, having previously functioned as an embassy. Currently in a state of semi dereliction, Project Orange is working on both the external alterations and the full interior design including all fit-out and loose furniture. Proposals include the reconstruction of the mansard roof and a new extension at basement level to the rear of the property including a small courtyard garden area. The interior design is very much in the early stages of development. We are working with a varied palette of luxurious materials and with a wide variety of contemporary and antique pieces of furniture to create a unique concept. The project is due to start on site in January 2015.
Built 1904-8 by Sir Ernest George for the Mason family, who made their fortunes in Portuguese and Spanish Copper mines, Eynsham Hall is in the Elizabethan Style. Originally the manor house included its own waterworks, gas plant, electricity generating station and private telephone links with all parts of the 130 acre estate. Two rooms were specifically designed to house hand painted wallpaper and carvings by Owen Jones. Having survived many incarnations, including a convalescence home for injured soldiers, a police training academy, a Barclays Bank and a botanical research centre, Eynsham Hall has been run as a hotel and conference centre since 1981. Since completing some areas in 2007, Project Orange have begun a new phase of refurbishment to draw the character of this extraordinary building into the present day. Focussing on the main dining areas, conference facilities, and bedrooms, these design proposals add a touch of English Eccentricity to the building's heritage. The interior design of these rooms take their inspiration from the glorious heritage of the site and feature Edwardian fabrics matched with contemporary patterns. Using materials such as copper which have strong links to the history of the building and design, which responds intelligently to the unique spaces. Expected completion is May 2015.
Glovers Alley is a new restaurant within the 5 star Fitzwilliam Hotel in Dublin. Project Orange have worked on a number of projects within the hotel over a fifteen year period and are currently engaged on a major refurbishment of the whole property, of which the restaurant is the first part to complete. Our brief from the client for the new restaurant was clear without being prescriptive. He required an interior that would be sophisticated, glamorous and meet the demanding and sometimes conflicting requirements of both fine dining and hotel breakfast service. His ambition, with new chef Andy McFadden, was to regain the illusive Michelin star. For the original design concept for the hotel we coined the phrase ‘Baronial Moderne’. This conjunction of apparently contradictory style references serves as a device to help generate a new signature aesthetic for the project. In this instance it described the bringing together of the signature elements of a grand county house with a modernistic aesthetic redolent of the art deco period. The restaurant has recently been awarded a Michelin Star.
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Stockholm studio Tham & Videgård Arkitekter have completed a museum in Malmö, Sweden, adding an extention clad in perforated orange metal. Called Moderna Museet Malmö, the project involved renovating the existing building and adding a new entrance hall, cafe and upper gallery. The following information is from the architects: Moderna museet Malmö A starting point
