AMA designing family home

Mews 03 is a single residence set in fashionable Notting Hill Gate by AMA (Andy Martin Architects). Andy wanted this existing 2 levels modest mews house to be redeveloped into a 4 levels family home, and to be a private cocoon but open to the elements. An important aspect of this building is the way AMA have managed to capture the available light creatively, using glazed and wooden screens, and even natural vegetation screens giving all the spaces a unique atmosphere throughout the day and night. One of the abutting walls is clad throughout with Douglas Fir giving one the impression that the building is some fixed back to neatly constructed barn. The architecture not only lives with but is positively by its contradictions: elegance and texture, weight and weightlessness and, above all, light and dark.
Established in 2000 and based in London, AMA is a new generation architectural practice. The mission at AMA is to carry out ambitious building at multiple scales and programmes, with a commitment to innovation, design and sustainability.
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