Joe Burke self-builds Leyton House, a compact brick infill home bookending a London terrace
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Jon Astbury
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Architect Joe Burke self-built Leyton House, a compact brick home on a 4.5-metre-wide garden plot in east London, bookending a 1960s terrace. The project uses rough pale brickwork and a concrete plinth for tactility, with Burke acting as client, developer, architect and contractor. The home features a split-level layout with a sunken living room, exposed concrete ceiling, and a first-floor bedroom with a Juliet balcony, designed to maximize natural light and spatial flow on a constrained infill site.
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· 3 pulledHaving purchased the existing end-of-terrace unit in Leyton, east London, Burke used its overgrown, 4.5-metre-wide garden as the site of the rental home, for which he acted as client, developer, architect and contractor.
The home features a split-level layout with a sunken living room, exposed concrete ceiling, and a first-floor bedroom with a Juliet balcony.
Rough, pale brickwork and a concrete plinth provide tactility and texture to the compact dwelling.
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