The Coach House is a three-bedroom house located in London, United Kingdom, designed in 2023 by Open Practice Architecture. This family home balances comfort and interaction with its original utilitarian outbuildings, and its clean and calming interior explores materiality to reveal an environment celebrating light and aesthetic engagement across the dwelling’s different spaces.

Crafting A Vision For The Coach House
Marking a clean departure from its precedent as a neglected, cluttered automotive garage and outbuildings, the couple crafted a vision for the house that would champion materiality, and prioritise light circulation throughout.

Thoughtful Architecture Seeks Light Suspension
Whilst focusing on designing a comfortable family home comprising a three bedroom house, courtyard garden and guest suite annexe, Open Practice Architecture was careful to front a design that also respected the original utilitarian nature of the site and its surroundings. The Coach House is the result of a two phase project, with the pair acquiring the original site in 2017 on auction, completing the main house in 2022 and finishing the latest addition, the annexe in late 2023.
The core of the brief demanded that the site was unhampered in volume. Open Practice and Kinder proposed a design approach that would generously work with the original footprint, to forge stronger connections with the garden and create distinct living spaces that seek to draw in natural light.

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