Brick · Oak · Steel · Concrete
Brick rooms gather around a shared planted courtyard.
The brick walls establish the rhythm of the project. Their repeated piers and tall openings offer an order to work with, rather than a condition to disguise. The design keeps that order visible while reconsidering how the spaces connect. New elements are concentrated at the openings and thresholds, allowing the larger surfaces of brick to retain their presence. The result is an approach to change that begins with close observation.
The courtyard becomes a shared room without a roof. Planting, a slender tree and a low bench give it enough definition to feel inhabited, while leaving the centre open. Glazing allows views between the surrounding rooms, so their activities can feel related without being placed in one uninterrupted interior. The garden provides a pause in that sequence: a place between workspaces, rather than an ornamental scene viewed only from inside.
A working room looks back into the garden.
Pale oak reveals and fine steel frames sit within the heavier brick openings. Their edges are clear and deliberate, making the intervention readable without introducing a competing architectural language. The contrast also brings the existing surface into sharper focus. Uneven brick, smooth timber and narrow metal are allowed to remain different. The design draws coherence from their proportions and repeated placement, not from making every part look the same.
A doorway is treated as more than the point at which a person enters. Its depth creates a small transition from the courtyard to a room, offering a close encounter with the materials. Beside it, the concrete bench extends the invitation to stop. These modest elements support informal use: setting something down, waiting for a conversation or stepping outside briefly. They give the architecture a scale that can be understood through ordinary movement.
Oak and steel give new definition to the existing brick openings.
A planted passage connects the rooms through the courtyard.
Leaf shadows and glimpses of planting soften the workshop’s more regular geometry. The interior studies keep furnishings simple so the relationship between the window, the brick and the courtyard remains clear. This is not a design built around a single dramatic viewpoint. Its interest lies in a sequence of close relationships, allowing the same small garden to appear differently from each room and each threshold along the way.