House of bricoleurs

House of bricoleurs https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz House of bricoleurs Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:53:24 +0000 https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz en Intro https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Intro Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:35:52 +0000 House of bricoleurs https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Intro <img width="632" height="645" width_o="632" height_o="645" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a62a2c6b87e8f161cb931f85522a6e26be52b01746fd1aa9f1cb77ca0fd7cb6/House-of-bricoleurs-logo_White.png" data-mid="187122728" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/632/i/8a62a2c6b87e8f161cb931f85522a6e26be52b01746fd1aa9f1cb77ca0fd7cb6/House-of-bricoleurs-logo_White.png" /> ↧↧↧ Dwyran Farm https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Dwyran-Farm Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:35:52 +0000 House of bricoleurs https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Dwyran-Farm Dwyran Farm Dwyran Farm is a farmstead located in Anglesey, Wales. The proposal is to create an off grid and self-sufficient building while exploring sustainable materials and methods of construction. The client is directly involved in the building process, becoming experts in construction and therefore able to maintain and repair the farm in the future. The proposal is to convert the previous pig farm into a multi use community hub along with a camping site and associated facilities. The main barn is turned into a community building while the outbuilding will be turned into supporting facilities, with showers, dry toilets and communal kitchen. The adaptation of the existing buildings is in keeping with the existing fabric. New barrel vaults roofs are proposed on the outbuildings to provide enhance internal communal spaces.  ‣  Client: Private      Budget £300,000.00     Location: Anglesey, UK     Stage: Planning Warrington Crescent https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Warrington-Crescent Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:37:20 +0000 House of bricoleurs https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Warrington-Crescent Warrington Crescent This project centres on the careful refurbishment and energy retrofit of a Grade II listed flat located within the Maida Vale Conservation Area of London. The work reorganises the layout to suit contemporary living, while also repairing the building’s historic fabric inside and out. It aims to give a European Mediterranean feel to a very London Victorian space: with the introduction of zellige tiles stored for 20 years, ‘tomettes’ tiles. Second-hand furniture and details like door handles are coordinated with repaired British mouldings and pine flooring to create an hybrid aesthetic. Timber joists, floors and sash windows are meticulously restored, while the external masonry walls now insulated using hempcrete and lime. This is a low-impact approach that allows the structure to regulate air and vapour exchanges between the inside and outside while reducing carbon emissions and construction costs. Throughout the project, natural materials were favoured. Hempcrete, lime and timber for the new elements are combined with non-toxic finishes such as clay paint helping to regulate humidity and improve indoor air quality. The use of plastic and plasterboard was deliberately reduced in favour of more sustainable alternatives when possible. The refurbishment aims to future-proof the flat against the pressures of climate change over the next half-century, particularly the urban heat island effect in West London. A reconfigured bathroom now doubles as a cool room during summer heatwaves, while the reinstated timber windows and chimney vents restore natural ventilation.  © Photographs Rachel Ferriman  ‣  Client: Private      Budget £205,000.00     Location: London, UK    Status: Listed Building Grade II    Structural Engineer: Webb Yates Engineers    Contractor: Hut & Blom    Completion: November 2024     Stage: Built Crinkle Crankle, Claypagn and Stoneberries https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Crinkle-Crankle-Claypagn-and-Stoneberries Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:03:48 +0000 House of bricoleurs https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Crinkle-Crankle-Claypagn-and-Stoneberries Crinkle Crankle The 2023 strawberry table is a bricolage interpretation of a traditional English garden feature: the crinkle crankle wall. Whereas its waves usually keep fruit trees sheltered, the sinuous low-level wall bears strawberries today. Using the structural strength provided by its curved geometry, the low-level wall is one leaf thin: an opportunity to create unexpected encounters either side of the wall and to celebrate one strawberry at a time! The structure has been assembled without mortar with the support of stonemason from PAYE. The stone bricks are Portland Stone Heritage bricks, cut from stone waste and donated by Albion Stone. The clay bricks have been salvaged from local London site by General Demolition. Once all strawberries are eaten, the table will be dismantled for immediate reuse.  •  Client: AA School of Architecture     Budget: £3,000.00     Location: London, UK     Stage: Completed in 2023 The Skin-Rocks https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/The-Skin-Rocks Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:53:24 +0000 House of bricoleurs https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/The-Skin-Rocks The Skin-RocksHouse of bricoleurs did scenographic work for artist Céleste Rogosin's first solo show The Skin-Rocks (Les Peaux roches). It is on view at the FRAC Grand-Large from October 4th 2025 and until January 4, 2026.The show is grounded in the context of France’s Côte d’Opal, metaphorically, and physically through the rocks, gravel and dust sourced from a local quarry - Carrières de la Vallée Heureuse.The exhibition gathers several pieces, including:- Djoukie’s Vertigo (fragments), 2025 in collaboration with Quebec writer Daniel Danis, video installation. - Braid the Kinks from Your Mind, 2021, installation (chair, hose clamps, cables, glass sea shell) FRAC Grand Large collection. - Liminal Bodies, 2021, UV prints on Dibon Aluminium, CNAP Collection. - The Edge of Eternity, 2025, video installation. We collaborated with the artist to develop the scenography: to spatially perceive the view points, understand the visitor circulation and develop layout possibilities to support the artist’s vision.  •  Client: private     Budget: n.a.      Location: FRAC Grand-Large, Dunkirk, France     Stage: Completed in 2025 Partisan Refurbishment https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Partisan-Refurbishment Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:35:16 +0000 House of bricoleurs https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Partisan-Refurbishment Partisan Refurbishment ↬ Partisan Collective in Manchester needed the provision of an inclusive, accessible, not-for-profit platform and space in Greater Manchester. There, its members meet, share, learn, create, perform and dance together. The proposal was to adapt the existing industrial building to the multiple uses generated by the collective. The existing building was transformed with significant internal changes to create additional internal spaces, opening up and linking existing spaces while fitting an accessible toilet and making the space more accessible. The works were carried out by a local contractor, while the decoration was done by Partisan Collective. ⁃   Client: Partisan Cooperative     Budget: £5,000.00     Location: Manchester, UK     Stage: Completed in 2021 Making Partisan Accessible https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Making-Partisan-Accessible Wed, 02 Aug 2023 10:17:28 +0000 House of bricoleurs https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Making-Partisan-Accessible Making Partisan Accessible Adaptive reuse of former synagogue into community building for the cultural cooperative and social space: Partisan Collective. The proposal is to adapt the building to its new users and make it accessible over its two floors.  The former synagogue is a listed building located in the centre of Manchester and the proposed works were to be carried out by Partisan members. The proposed works were developed to planning stage with a proposed change of use and listed building consent, before Partisan moved out to a new location in Saltford. ⁃   Client: Partisan Cooperative     Budget: £300,000.00     Location: Manchester, UK     Stage: 2017-2020, Planning, Unbuilt. Pipe-Up! https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Pipe-Up Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:08:45 +0000 House of bricoleurs https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Pipe-Up Pipe-Up! Pipe Up! is a new public bench, sited where Potteries of London once manufactured crockery and sanitaryware. Drawing on Lambeth’s historic industry and London’s revolutionary approach to sanitation during the 19th century, the bench takes the form of a fragmented ceramic pipe, offering an unconventional vantage point to meet, sit, and ponder. The terracotta tiles, manufactured by leading architectural ceramicists Darwen Terracotta and Faience, are glazed and patterned in tribute to Victorian Lambeth pottery decoration. Mixing digital fabrication, traditional craft and structural innovation with terracotta, the bench utilizes ceramic’s structural properties by creating a self-supporting ceramic vault with very lightweight steel footings. With Amir Afshar and Niels Werner Hersmann •  Client: St-James - Berkeley Group     Budget: £70,000.00     Location: London, UK     Stage: Completed in 2021 Betts Project Exhibition Design https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Betts-Project-Exhibition-Design Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:57:22 +0000 House of bricoleurs https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Betts-Project-Exhibition-Design Betts Project Exhibition Design  Exhibition design for the first exhibition of Peter Markli’s drawings in London for the opening of Betts Project in London, a commercial gallery dedicated to contemporary architecture. The drawings are displayed horizontally behind a glass plate on reclaimed wooden planks supported by metal frame and legs. The drawings are also displayed on the walls supported by a new transparent hanging device, creating the impression that the drawings are floating in space. The existing wooden floor is painted white along with the walls. With Lili Carr. •  Client: Betts Project     Budget: £2,000.00     Location: London, UK     Stage: Completed in June 2014 Gerry's Pompeii 3d Scan https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Gerry-s-Pompeii-3d-Scan Fri, 04 Aug 2023 15:08:45 +0000 House of bricoleurs https://houseofbricoleurs.xyz/Gerry-s-Pompeii-3d-Scan Gerry’s Pompeii Point  Cloud  Survey  Gerry’s Pompeii is a visionnary environment located in North London. It was created by the late Gerard Dalton (1935-2019) and originally occupied a one bedroom flat and back garden on Regent’s Canal. The flat and courtyard are now empty. The only remaining work in situ is the additional 50 meters long garden located along Regent’s canal. Gerard Dalton called himself a gardener. Following his death in 2019, the Save Gerry’s Pompeii Campaign has endeavored to preserve the garden in inventive ways responding to Gerry’s creative spirit whilst initiating a community-led public programme.  Due to its improvised and amateur method of construction, using cement, caulk or bathroom sealant, the garden is vulnerable to weather and rainwater. It requires care and daily preservation. In collaboration with curator Sasha Gallitzine and founder of Gerry’s Pompeii charity, we were able to record the garden’s condition in July 2023. With artist Quentin Martin, we were able to conduct a point cloud survey using lidar scanning and photogrammetry. The data are now being processed and will be translated into multiple forms, possibly with a virtual tour and models. •  Client: Gerry’s Pompeii Charity     Budget: Confidential     Location: London, UK     Stage: Survey in July 2023 - on going for data processing