Future Focused – House Bean by Lintel Studio

Anchored in place, House Bean is the culmination of a series of crafted elements, bringing together the core ethos of an emerging practice with the needs of family life. Lintel Studio adds moments of the unexpected among more familiar elements within the shared zones, creating opportunities for retreat and gathering, bound together with a certain playfulness.

Inspired by the imagined experience of living within the home, a core focus on light and the intersections between inside and out drove the overall approach. House Bean combines a solidity through its masonry material features, whilst punctuations allow light and other natural elements to weave their way through the otherwise solid outer form. Creating a restful and welcoming home was key to the end resolve, utilising a soft and muted palette to lessen contrasts in finishes. Lintel Studio worked closely with an engaged client to allow for gestures of joy throughout.

As a cornerstone project for the practice, Lintel Studio expresses the company’s own values throughout the structure, engaging in meaningful conversation about design and how design can amplify a life lived well.

As a cornerstone project for the practice, Lintel Studio expresses the company’s own values throughout the structure, engaging in meaningful conversation about design and how design can amplify a life lived well. As a result, the project becomes aspirational, bringing together Lintel Studio’s ambitions with those of the client, focusing on the future and ensuring an enduring nature is felt throughout. Whilst the brief for any family home is traditionally multi-layered, House Bean works to accommodate the needs of its many and varying members and allow for the element of time; the spaces consider how needs and values may change, becoming the foundations for the years to come.

House Bean centres on both a robustness and the creation of outward connections. Allowing the feel of the home to funnel outward, framed openings and operable façade elements encourage a natural ventilation, whilst also bringing opportunities for solar gain within. Screening external elements aid in the passive comfort of spaces, ensuring the structure performs functionally, similarly expressing an aesthetic of tones that connect with its occupants. A lively palette of calm and muted finishes adds an animation, whilst a monochrome base is carried throughout.

A lively palette of calm and muted finishes adds an animation, whilst a monochrome base is carried throughout.

Combining slight curves and openings within otherwise weighted elements, House Bean is a welcomed addition to the surrounds of Clovelly. Lintel Studio ensures a connection to context through a lightness, layering in the various needs of its owners for their own private oasis.