St Margarets: An Ode to Twickenham - Unagru Architecture & Urbanism
An interior living space precedent highlighting the use of a large circular ceiling oculus to pull natural light deep into a long residential room.
- What we like about this project
- The perfectly circular skylight acts as a dynamic sundial shifting across the plaster ceiling throughout the day.
Materials
- engineered-wood
- tadelakt-plaster
- glass
- steel
- fabric
Visual identifiers
- circular-skylight
- light-wood-flooring
- plaster-walls
- garden-view
- sliding-glass-doors
Style tags
- contemporary
- warm-minimal
- residential
- scandinavian-inflected
Visual tags
- residential
- open-plan
- daylight-focus
- warm-interior
- garden-connection
- skylight
- Geometry
- A linear elongated room extending from foreground dining area through a living zone toward rear garden glass sliding doors; punctuated overhead by a prominent circular skylight.
- Facade system
- Full-height rear sliding glass door system framing the garden.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing residential walls with rear steel lintel opening for garden glazing.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate residential scale; single-story ceiling height with a comfortable domestic width.
- Lighting
- Direct overhead daylight streams through the circular skylight, creating a soft pool of light on the floor and walls, complemented by gentle daylight from the rear glazing.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, light-filled, and domestic, centered around the interplay between the overhead circular skylight and the verdant garden view.
- Environmental context
- Residential interior opening directly onto a lush green garden courtyard in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The view moves from foreground dining under a lower plaster ceiling toward the sunlit focal point of the circular skylight and the garden view beyond.
- Composition rhythm
- Longitudinal perspective lines of the wood flooring and built-in shelving guide the eye toward the rear courtyard aperture.
- Style reading
- Contemporary warm minimal residential interior
- Program
- Residential living and dining area
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- engineered-wood, tadelakt-plaster, glass, steel, fabric
- Visual identifiers
- circular-skylight, light-wood-flooring, plaster-walls, garden-view, sliding-glass-doors
- Style tags
- contemporary, warm-minimal, residential, scandinavian-inflected
- Visual tags
- residential, open-plan, daylight-focus, warm-interior, garden-connection, skylight
- Geometry
- A linear elongated room extending from foreground dining area through a living zone toward rear garden glass sliding doors; punctuated overhead by a prominent circular skylight.
- Facade system
- Full-height rear sliding glass door system framing the garden.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing residential walls with rear steel lintel opening for garden glazing.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate residential scale; single-story ceiling height with a comfortable domestic width.
- Lighting
- Direct overhead daylight streams through the circular skylight, creating a soft pool of light on the floor and walls, complemented by gentle daylight from the rear glazing.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, light-filled, and domestic, centered around the interplay between the overhead circular skylight and the verdant garden view.
- Environmental context
- Residential interior opening directly onto a lush green garden courtyard in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The view moves from foreground dining under a lower plaster ceiling toward the sunlit focal point of the circular skylight and the garden view beyond.
- Composition rhythm
- Longitudinal perspective lines of the wood flooring and built-in shelving guide the eye toward the rear courtyard aperture.
- Style reading
- Contemporary warm minimal residential interior
- Program
- Residential living and dining area
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior