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SPRINGHILL IS A DEVELOPMENT IN CAMBERWELL SE5 OF A PAIR OF NEW-BUILD HOUSES - SPRINGBANK AND PADDOCK HOUSE.

THIS BLOG DOCUMENTS THE BUILDING PROCESS FROM APRIL 2012 TO DECEMBER 2013

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Saturday 31 August 2013

Printing ink.




A trip to Kelvyn Smith's letterpress workshop.
Kelvyn is printing a project-specific piece for the exhibition we will be hosting.
Watch this space...

Paddock House's lawn.






Paddock House's entrance court.


Oak veneered birch ply.

Power and precision.

A pair of rebate planes.


Liam assembling a kitchen base unit.

Paddock House's kitchen is about to be fitted.
It had been made in Roy Middleton's workshop, flat-packed and stored until ready for assembly.

Earth cables.

Delights in rural leisure to unbend.

For here humanity's and virtue's friend,

One of Billy Lloyd's pendants in the large basement room.

Thursday 29 August 2013

Me testing the reading seat.

The divider shelf has a reading seat on the half-landing of the stair.

Liam and Rupert fitting the divider shelf to the side of the atrium.

Paddock House's garden.


Mirek laying the bricks for the vehicle gate threshold.

Adhesive for the limestone kitchen floor.

Flint gravel, bamboo, York stone, shadows  and grass.

Golden bamboo in the entrance court.

We have planted golden bamboo - Phyllostachys Aureosulcata - as a gentle screen between the areas of Paddock House's garden.

Sunday 25 August 2013

A pattern of "P"s, for Paddock House.
These are laser-cut into 4mm stainless steel.
This is one of the floor ventilation grilles for the Mechanical Ventilation Heat Recovery system.

Paddock House's dressing room.

A gloomy, wet day viewed through a rooflight.

Saturday 24 August 2013