DGN Studio has demonstrated adaptability to an ever-evolving brief at Magpie House, resulting in a bright, material-first refurbishment and extension of an East London terraced home for a textile designer and digital designer.
DGN工作室展示了对Magpie House不断发展的适应性，为纺织设计师和数字设计师设计了明亮、材料优先的东伦敦联排住宅的翻新和扩建。

The clients, keen collectors of mid-century furniture with extensive knowledge in self-build projects, approached DGN Studio to open and extend the ground floor of their north-facing home. The brief quickly grew to encompass refurbishing the upper floor, requiring DGN Studio to execute a cohesive renovation throughout while incorporating many repurposed fittings and furniture from the clients’ vintage collection.
客户是中世纪家具的狂热收藏家，在自建项目中拥有广泛的知识，他们找到DGN工作室来开放和扩展他们朝北住宅的一层。该项目要求DGN工作室进行有凝聚力的翻新，同时从客户的复古收藏中融入许多重新使用的配件和家具。

Working first on the principles of spatial planning and natural light, DGN Studio redesigned the existing ground floor plan to encompass a more cohesive and seamless sequence for living, dining, and cooking. DGN Studio reworked the traditional configuration of smaller rooms, opening the centre of the plan to create a welcoming living space on entrance, which leads down into the new kitchen and dining space, which extends 3 metres into the rear garden.
DGN工作室首先致力于空间规划和自然光的原则，重新设计了现有的底层平面图，以包含更加连贯和无缝的生活、餐饮和烹饪顺序。DGN工作室重新设计了较小房间的传统配置，打开了计划的中心，在入口处创建了一个温馨的生活空间，通向新的厨房和用餐空间，该空间延伸到后花园3米。

Connection to the garden was central to the brief, met with the addition of a cast concrete and dark stained oak window seat at the rear elevation, the glazed panels of which can be entirely opened to offer a seamless flow from dining area to garden. Outside, the rear façade is designed to offer depth and a degree of privacy. It has an expressive, galvanised steel structure with dark stained timber window trims, chosen to tie neatly in with the existing black-stained garden room. Slim steel posts break up the dark elevation, which is topped by a thick lead parapet that projects to create a small overhang, sheltering the bench below from rain.
与花园的连接是该建筑的中心，在后立面增加了一个铸造混凝土和深色橡木窗座椅，其玻璃面板可以完全打开，提供从用餐区到花园的无缝流动。外部，后立面的设计提供了深度和一定程度的隐私。它有一个富有表现力的镀锌钢结构，带有深色的木窗装饰，选择与现有的黑色花园房间整齐地结合在一起。细长的钢柱打破了黑暗的立面，顶部是一个厚厚的铅制护墙，突出形成一个小悬挑，为下面的长椅遮雨。

The courtyard is a low maintenance space featuring gravel overlaid with reclaimed steel mesh panels, and brewer’s malting kiln tiles salvaged and repurposed by the client as part of a careful narrative of old and new. This stitching and weaving of different material components and objects inherited from the client continues throughout the home. In the new extension, DGN Studio treated reclaimed London stock bricks with a mineral paint for a softer interior. Set three steps down from the entrance level, the new extension takes advantage of increased ceiling heights and overhead glazing.
庭院是一个低维护空间，其特点是砾石覆盖着回收的钢网面板，啤酒厂的麦芽窑瓷砖被客户回收并重新利用，作为新老故事的一部分。这种从客户那里继承的不同材料组件和对象的缝合和编织在整个家中都在继续。在新的扩建项目中，DGN 工作室用矿物漆处理了伦敦的再生砖，使其内部更加柔软。从入口层往下走三步，新的延伸部分利用了增加的天花板高度和头顶玻璃。

The requirement for an economic and functional kitchen is accommodated by large joinery pieces for plentiful storage, all designed to work around items that were already in the client’s possession such as the oven and hob. Stainless steel counters and splashback act as the main material of contrast against ash cupboards and open shelving. These extend to a larger, stainless-steel unit that conceals the extract at high level, as well as providing ample space for preparation to service large gatherings. An ash wood cut out in the wall connects the kitchen to the sitting room at the front of the home, elongating site lines throughout the ground floor.
对于经济实用的厨房的要求是通过大量的细木工件来满足的，这些细木工件都是为了处理客户已经拥有的物品，如烤箱和炉灶。不锈钢柜台和防溅板是与烟灰柜和开放式货架形成对比的主要材料。这些扩展到一个更大的不锈钢单元，在高水平上隐藏提取物，并为大型聚会提供充足的准备空间。墙上切出的一块灰木将厨房与家门口的客厅连接起来，将场地线延伸到整个一楼。

Upstairs, the floor plan is rearranged to accommodate two bedrooms and a family bathroom in lieu of the previous three bedroom arrangement, which can still accommodate a third small bedroom in future if required. The new bathroom is enclosed in an oak-framed reeded glass screen with slatted timbers above the door to allow light to permeate into the top floor. Microcement floors are taken up to the walls, with the interior designed around the clients’ collected items including the loo, large sink and bath. In lieu of the former, narrow corridor outside the bathroom, a bright, open landing can now accommodate a sofa or study, going beyond mere circulation space. A wood floor reclaimed from the structural and supporting timbers of historic barns throughout the North-East & Mid-Atlantic regions elevates the feel of it as a transitory space to the bedrooms where minimal alterations were made.
楼上的平面布置图重新布置，以容纳两间卧室和一间家庭浴室，而不是之前的三间卧室布置，如果需要，未来仍可以容纳第三间小卧室。新浴室被一个橡木框的芦苇玻璃屏风包围，门上方有板条木，让光线渗透到顶层。微水泥地板贴在墙上，室内设计围绕客户收集的物品，包括厕所、大型水槽和浴缸。一个明亮的开放式平台取代了以前浴室外狭窄的走廊，现在可以容纳沙发或书房，而不仅仅是流通空间。从东北和中大西洋地区历史悠久的谷仓的结构和支撑木材中回收的木地板提升了它作为卧室的过渡空间的感觉，在那里进行了最小的改动。

“Magpie House was conceived as a home for John and Alice but also a personal museum for their incredible collection of mid century furniture and artworks. We focused on creating spaces of architectural integrity, allowing our work to become a backdrop for the many materials, fittings, and fixtures John and Alice brought to the home.”
“喜鹊屋被设计成约翰和爱丽丝的家，同时也是他们难以置信的中世纪家具和艺术品收藏的个人博物馆。我们专注于创造建筑完整的空间，让我们的作品成为约翰和爱丽丝带到家中的许多材料、配件和固定装置的背景。”
—— Daniel Goodacre, Director DGN Studio
—— Daniel Goodacre，DGN工作室总监

“DGN Studio was very responsive to our brief, which evolved continually. We had worked with Daniel on a previous project when he was part of another practice, and it was wonderful to have a trusted and talented architect at the helm of Magpie House.”
“DGN Studio对我们的简报做出了非常积极的回应，该简报不断发展。我们曾在丹尼尔参与另一个项目时与他合作过一个项目，有一位值得信赖的天才建筑师掌舵喜鹊之家真是太棒了。”
——Clients John Sinclair and Alice Saunders
——客户John Sinclair和Alice Saunders

The project was facilitated by a long-term relationship between the client and contractor, as well as a sensitive attitude to reusing found objects. DGN Studio rethought the traditional design process in favour of a more intuitive, flexible approach, testing new ways of working in a more agile and responsive manner to site processes, making Magpie house a successful collage of many hands.
客户和承包商之间的长期关系，以及对重新使用发现的物体的敏感态度，为该项目提供了便利。DGN工作室重新思考了传统的设计过程，支持更直观、更灵活的方法，测试了新的工作方式，以更灵活和响应现场流程的方式，使喜鹊屋成为一个成功的多人拼贴。

Project credits:
Architect: DGN Studio
Completion date: February 2022
Location: Hackney, East London
GIA: 113 square metres
Clients: John Sinclair & Alice Saunders
Engineer: Constant Structural Design
Party Wall Surveyor: Schofield Surveyors
Approved Inspector: Act Building Control
Contractor: DBMS Ltd
Joiner: DBMS Ltd
Still Photography: © Tim Crocker
Key Products:
Flooring:
Polished Concrete Floor (Ash White) – Steyson Granolithic;
Timber Floor (New England Oak) – Reclaimed Flooring Co.
Kitchen: European Ash / Stainless Steel – DGNS design / DBMS Ltd construct
Bricks: Reclaimed
Sanitaryware: Client collection
Tapware: Client collection / Lefroy Brooks
Painting: Farrow & Ball
Reeded glass: Float Glass Design

DGN Studio has demonstrated adaptability to an ever-evolving brief at Magpie House, resulting in a bright, material-first refurbishment and extension of an East London terraced home for a textile designer and digital designer.
DGN工作室展示了对Magpie House不断发展的适应性，为纺织设计师和数字设计师设计了明亮、材料优先的东伦敦联排住宅的翻新和扩建。

The clients, keen collectors of mid-century furniture with extensive knowledge in self-build projects, approached DGN Studio to open and extend the ground floor of their north-facing home. The brief quickly grew to encompass refurbishing the upper floor, requiring DGN Studio to execute a cohesive renovation throughout while incorporating many repurposed fittings and furniture from the clients’ vintage collection.
客户是中世纪家具的狂热收藏家，在自建项目中拥有广泛的知识，他们找到DGN工作室来开放和扩展他们朝北住宅的一层。该项目要求DGN工作室进行有凝聚力的翻新，同时从客户的复古收藏中融入许多重新使用的配件和家具。

Working first on the principles of spatial planning and natural light, DGN Studio redesigned the existing ground floor plan to encompass a more cohesive and seamless sequence for living, dining, and cooking. DGN Studio reworked the traditional configuration of smaller rooms, opening the centre of the plan to create a welcoming living space on entrance, which leads down into the new kitchen and dining space, which extends 3 metres into the rear garden.
DGN工作室首先致力于空间规划和自然光的原则，重新设计了现有的底层平面图，以包含更加连贯和无缝的生活、餐饮和烹饪顺序。DGN工作室重新设计了较小房间的传统配置，打开了计划的中心，在入口处创建了一个温馨的生活空间，通向新的厨房和用餐空间，该空间延伸到后花园3米。

Connection to the garden was central to the brief, met with the addition of a cast concrete and dark stained oak window seat at the rear elevation, the glazed panels of which can be entirely opened to offer a seamless flow from dining area to garden. Outside, the rear façade is designed to offer depth and a degree of privacy. It has an expressive, galvanised steel structure with dark stained timber window trims, chosen to tie neatly in with the existing black-stained garden room. Slim steel posts break up the dark elevation, which is topped by a thick lead parapet that projects to create a small overhang, sheltering the bench below from rain.
与花园的连接是该建筑的中心，在后立面增加了一个铸造混凝土和深色橡木窗座椅，其玻璃面板可以完全打开，提供从用餐区到花园的无缝流动。外部，后立面的设计提供了深度和一定程度的隐私。它有一个富有表现力的镀锌钢结构，带有深色的木窗装饰，选择与现有的黑色花园房间整齐地结合在一起。细长的钢柱打破了黑暗的立面，顶部是一个厚厚的铅制护墙，突出形成一个小悬挑，为下面的长椅遮雨。

The courtyard is a low maintenance space featuring gravel overlaid with reclaimed steel mesh panels, and brewer’s malting kiln tiles salvaged and repurposed by the client as part of a careful narrative of old and new. This stitching and weaving of different material components and objects inherited from the client continues throughout the home. In the new extension, DGN Studio treated reclaimed London stock bricks with a mineral paint for a softer interior. Set three steps down from the entrance level, the new extension takes advantage of increased ceiling heights and overhead glazing.
庭院是一个低维护空间，其特点是砾石覆盖着回收的钢网面板，啤酒厂的麦芽窑瓷砖被客户回收并重新利用，作为新老故事的一部分。这种从客户那里继承的不同材料组件和对象的缝合和编织在整个家中都在继续。在新的扩建项目中，DGN 工作室用矿物漆处理了伦敦的再生砖，使其内部更加柔软。从入口层往下走三步，新的延伸部分利用了增加的天花板高度和头顶玻璃。

The requirement for an economic and functional kitchen is accommodated by large joinery pieces for plentiful storage, all designed to work around items that were already in the client’s possession such as the oven and hob. Stainless steel counters and splashback act as the main material of contrast against ash cupboards and open shelving. These extend to a larger, stainless-steel unit that conceals the extract at high level, as well as providing ample space for preparation to service large gatherings. An ash wood cut out in the wall connects the kitchen to the sitting room at the front of the home, elongating site lines throughout the ground floor.
对于经济实用的厨房的要求是通过大量的细木工件来满足的，这些细木工件都是为了处理客户已经拥有的物品，如烤箱和炉灶。不锈钢柜台和防溅板是与烟灰柜和开放式货架形成对比的主要材料。这些扩展到一个更大的不锈钢单元，在高水平上隐藏提取物，并为大型聚会提供充足的准备空间。墙上切出的一块灰木将厨房与家门口的客厅连接起来，将场地线延伸到整个一楼。

Upstairs, the floor plan is rearranged to accommodate two bedrooms and a family bathroom in lieu of the previous three bedroom arrangement, which can still accommodate a third small bedroom in future if required. The new bathroom is enclosed in an oak-framed reeded glass screen with slatted timbers above the door to allow light to permeate into the top floor. Microcement floors are taken up to the walls, with the interior designed around the clients’ collected items including the loo, large sink and bath. In lieu of the former, narrow corridor outside the bathroom, a bright, open landing can now accommodate a sofa or study, going beyond mere circulation space. A wood floor reclaimed from the structural and supporting timbers of historic barns throughout the North-East & Mid-Atlantic regions elevates the feel of it as a transitory space to the bedrooms where minimal alterations were made.
楼上的平面布置图重新布置，以容纳两间卧室和一间家庭浴室，而不是之前的三间卧室布置，如果需要，未来仍可以容纳第三间小卧室。新浴室被一个橡木框的芦苇玻璃屏风包围，门上方有板条木，让光线渗透到顶层。微水泥地板贴在墙上，室内设计围绕客户收集的物品，包括厕所、大型水槽和浴缸。一个明亮的开放式平台取代了以前浴室外狭窄的走廊，现在可以容纳沙发或书房，而不仅仅是流通空间。从东北和中大西洋地区历史悠久的谷仓的结构和支撑木材中回收的木地板提升了它作为卧室的过渡空间的感觉，在那里进行了最小的改动。

“Magpie House was conceived as a home for John and Alice but also a personal museum for their incredible collection of mid century furniture and artworks. We focused on creating spaces of architectural integrity, allowing our work to become a backdrop for the many materials, fittings, and fixtures John and Alice brought to the home.”
“喜鹊屋被设计成约翰和爱丽丝的家，同时也是他们难以置信的中世纪家具和艺术品收藏的个人博物馆。我们专注于创造建筑完整的空间，让我们的作品成为约翰和爱丽丝带到家中的许多材料、配件和固定装置的背景。”
—— Daniel Goodacre, Director DGN Studio
—— Daniel Goodacre，DGN工作室总监

“DGN Studio was very responsive to our brief, which evolved continually. We had worked with Daniel on a previous project when he was part of another practice, and it was wonderful to have a trusted and talented architect at the helm of Magpie House.”
“DGN Studio对我们的简报做出了非常积极的回应，该简报不断发展。我们曾在丹尼尔参与另一个项目时与他合作过一个项目，有一位值得信赖的天才建筑师掌舵喜鹊之家真是太棒了。”
——Clients John Sinclair and Alice Saunders
——客户John Sinclair和Alice Saunders

The project was facilitated by a long-term relationship between the client and contractor, as well as a sensitive attitude to reusing found objects. DGN Studio rethought the traditional design process in favour of a more intuitive, flexible approach, testing new ways of working in a more agile and responsive manner to site processes, making Magpie house a successful collage of many hands.
客户和承包商之间的长期关系，以及对重新使用发现的物体的敏感态度，为该项目提供了便利。DGN工作室重新思考了传统的设计过程，支持更直观、更灵活的方法，测试了新的工作方式，以更灵活和响应现场流程的方式，使喜鹊屋成为一个成功的多人拼贴。

Project credits:
Architect: DGN Studio
Completion date: February 2022
Location: Hackney, East London
GIA: 113 square metres
Clients: John Sinclair & Alice Saunders
Engineer: Constant Structural Design
Party Wall Surveyor: Schofield Surveyors
Approved Inspector: Act Building Control
Contractor: DBMS Ltd
Joiner: DBMS Ltd
Still Photography: © Tim Crocker
Key Products:
Flooring:
Polished Concrete Floor (Ash White) – Steyson Granolithic;
Timber Floor (New England Oak) – Reclaimed Flooring Co.
Kitchen: European Ash / Stainless Steel – DGNS design / DBMS Ltd construct
Bricks: Reclaimed
Sanitaryware: Client collection
Tapware: Client collection / Lefroy Brooks
Painting: Farrow & Ball
Reeded glass: Float Glass Design