Hatch + Mason
An interior precedent demonstrating the spatial zoning of a kitchen and dining area through contrasting ceiling heights and multifaceted daylighting.
- What we like about this project
- A circular skylight cut cleanly into the high plaster ceiling casts a sharp oval sun patch on the tall blank wall.
Materials
- marble
- plaster
- timber
- glass
- brass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- marble-island
- circular-skylight
- double-height-dining
- full-height-glazing
Style tags
- contemporary
- warm-minimal
- residential
Visual tags
- residential
- natural-light
- open-plan
- skylight
- warm-minimal
- Geometry
- Linear kitchen counter and island paired with a taller dining volume featuring a circular skylight and tall glazed garden doors.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing or framed residential construction with steel support for large rear openings.
- Spatial scale
- Domestic scale with a transition from single-story kitchen height to a dramatic double-height dining volume.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight entering from multiple sources including a rectangular kitchen skylight, a large circular overhead skylight, and full-height rear glazing.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, luminous atmosphere created by soft plaster walls and active pools of daylight.
- Environmental context
- Interior residential space opening directly to a sunlit paved courtyard and green tree canopy beyond.
- Spatial experience
- Moving from the lower, intimate kitchen zone under a lowered plaster soffit into the expansive, sunlit double-height dining volume.
- Composition rhythm
- Long horizontal lines of the kitchen counter and shelves balanced against the vertical pull of tall rear doors and circular overhead void.
- Style reading
- Contemporary warm minimal residential interior
- Program
- Residential kitchen and dining space
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- marble, plaster, timber, glass, brass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- marble-island, circular-skylight, double-height-dining, full-height-glazing
- Style tags
- contemporary, warm-minimal, residential
- Visual tags
- residential, natural-light, open-plan, skylight, warm-minimal
- Geometry
- Linear kitchen counter and island paired with a taller dining volume featuring a circular skylight and tall glazed garden doors.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing or framed residential construction with steel support for large rear openings.
- Spatial scale
- Domestic scale with a transition from single-story kitchen height to a dramatic double-height dining volume.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight entering from multiple sources including a rectangular kitchen skylight, a large circular overhead skylight, and full-height rear glazing.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, luminous atmosphere created by soft plaster walls and active pools of daylight.
- Environmental context
- Interior residential space opening directly to a sunlit paved courtyard and green tree canopy beyond.
- Spatial experience
- Moving from the lower, intimate kitchen zone under a lowered plaster soffit into the expansive, sunlit double-height dining volume.
- Composition rhythm
- Long horizontal lines of the kitchen counter and shelves balanced against the vertical pull of tall rear doors and circular overhead void.
- Style reading
- Contemporary warm minimal residential interior
- Program
- Residential kitchen and dining space
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior