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An Evening With...The Gap House
This evening tour provided a rare opportunity to tour The Gap House, a Winner of the RIBA Manser Medal by Pitman Tozer Architects.
Architect/owner, Luke Tozer, hosted this evening tour of his narrow new-build terraced London townhouse sited on a plot only 2.3m wide to the street and within a conservation area in Bayswater, West London.
Gap House proves that sustainable architecture is achievable without compromise on the tightest of urban sites. The house incorporates a number of green strategies to minimize its carbon footprint.
The key to achieving a solution where each habitable room has good daylight and feels spacious, even within the narrowest part, was to stack the smaller bedrooms at the front of the house facing the street and to organise the rear in a cascading configuration with the wet rooms and storage occupying the parts of the plan with no natural light.
A courtyard at the rear of the site brings light into the ground floor reception space. A central twisting timber stair, held as a piece of sculpture off the walls, brings daylight deep into the centre of the plan on each floor.
The Gap House won the RIBA Manser Medal 2009, the annual prize for the best one-off house or housing designed by an architect in the United Kingdom.
‘Overall the most impressive aspect of the design is its level of skill, imagination and practicality in creating a series of apparently generous spaces, despite all the constraints of overlooking, conservation policies and initially hostile residents association…The result is a comfortable home in a great piece of architecture.’ Manser Medal Jury 2009
Pitman Tozer Architects
Feedback from event attendees
“This private tour was a real privilege, made all the more special by being guided by the owner and architect, the same person on this occasion!”
"Luke Tozer presented the story of the build well and was very friendly and welcoming. The prosecco and nibbles were a nice touch”
“I had been keen to visit The Gap House over the Open House weekend and this presented another opportunity. The tour was informative and group small enough to allow several questions to be put and answered”
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