last updated 22nd Oct 04
by 4ecotips.com

Recycled newspaper keeps award-winning North London home warm.

In-Between, is a contemporary take on the traditional terrace built between existing houses in North London. Designed by Annalie Riches, Silvia Ullmayer and Barti Garibaldo, it won this year’s Architects’ Journal First Building Award organized in association with Robin Ellis Design & Construction.

The judges said: “This modest and ingenious development in a discreet corner of London brings a smile to the faces of all who see it. The designers each took a year out to project-manage subcontractors and to work on the build, developing useful carpentry and plumbing skills in the process.”

A non-uniform structure, it’s a very simple-shaped terrace form in reconstituted timber frame, a technology that allows ready personalisation within. The terrace is divided into three identical volumes – one house with workspace, one two-bedroom house and two studio flats - by structural studwork party walls, each with a 47 square metre internal footprint.

The framing allows the south wall of the terrace to be fully glazed using lightweight polycarbonate sheeting and glass. Insulation is variously recycled newspaper and sheep’s wool. The roof is sedum.