The RIBA Home of the Yr 2024 is an award that celebrates the perfect of residential structure. The typology’s relatability and omnipresence are what makes it such a vital style, and this an award that’s all the time hotly contested; and contested it shall be this 12 months too, because the shortlist has simply been introduced, revealing the six homes that can battle it out for the highest gong.
RIBA Home of the Yr 2024: the shortlist
The providing this 12 months spans rural and concrete, outdated and new, minimalist and richly adorned – however all deeply layered and considerate options to every of their particular person situations. The shortlist consists of Farmworker’s Home in Cornwall by Hugh Unusual Architects; Peckham Home in London by Surman Weston; Eavesdrop in Sussex by Tom Dowdall Architects; The Corridor in Kent by TaylorHare Architects; Plas Hendy Secure Block in Monmouthshire by Studio Brassica Architects; and Six Columns in London by 31/44 Architects.
‘A home may be many issues – this 12 months’s shortlist exhibits the breadth of prospects. From rural contexts to tight city websites, together with high-quality craftsmanship and intergenerational residing amongst different driving forces – all these homes are primarily in regards to the individuals who reside inside. Collectively the shortlisted exemplars provide scalable options to the pressing problems with immediately – displaying care in direction of sustainability and social modifications, together with the revival of historic buildings which do not negatively impression the pure setting. We had been impressed by the ambition of each the architects and shoppers to fulfill the problem of the modern residence,’ wrote jury chair Je Ahn in his quotation.
2024 RIBA Home of the Yr: the shortlist
Farmworker’s Home, Cornwall, by Hugh Unusual Architects
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A working farmhouse set within the inexperienced expanses of Cornwall, this residence appears to be like deceptively easy. Deliberate on an L-shaped association, curling round a serene courtyard, it is a rural hand-crafted in trustworthy, easy supplies – thick masonry partitions of monolithic clay blocks with textured lime render – and an easy transient; to be the house of the employee that appears after the adjoining farm.
Peckham Home, London, by Surman Weston
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This new Peckham home is a wonderful demonstration of how ability, endurance, and laborious work can come collectively to get an city infill off the bottom. Mastering the artwork of its mission sort is a ceremony of passage for architects in crowded, high-priced cities like London. The brand new-build residence was designed by Surman Weston, based by Tom Surman and Percy Weston in 2014 and featured in our 2020 Architects’ Listing. In 2022, Surman Weston gained the RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize for its well-mannered and restrained house for the Hackney Faculty of Meals, with different current tasks together with a sensible Surrey pool home. The Peckham Home was not solely designed by the agency, however developed, funded and considerably constructed by the workplace as nicely.
Eavesdrop, Sussex, by Tom Dowdall Architects
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House to breathe, accessibility and ageing, wellbeing and a connection to nature; these have all been themes on this household residence for a pair who typically host and entertain their grownup youngsters and their households. The mission incorporates a inexperienced courtyard at its coronary heart and elegantly flaunts a spread of bespoke design particulars, resembling its pronounced roof overhang which impressed its identify.
The Corridor, Kent, by TaylorHare Architects
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The transformation of a run down, Grade II-listed Sixteenth-century residence within the Kent Downs was praised for its delicate and delicate design work. Finely crafted bespoke particulars are matched by discreet new parts and restored older components, which all come collectively to kind a busy and useful household residence that’s completely tailor-made for its residents.
Plas Hendy Secure Block, Monmouthshire, by Studio Brassica Architects
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One other Grade II-listed construction on this checklist is that this revived Arts & Crafts steady block in Monmouthshire, which now varieties a part of the residing quarters of a wider property belonging to the identical household for many years. Easy supplies, a contextual strategy and enjoyable detailing that nod to the scheme’s historic roots make this home a pleasure to discover.
Six Columns, London, by 31/44 Architects
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For this Crystal Palace home, 31/44 Architects have labored their magic on one more under-used plot (a apply speciality) – this time for themselves. Six Columns is the brand new household residence of the agency’s co-founder Will Burges. The 1,640 sq ft home sits on the location of an enormous facet backyard within the south-east London district. Its design is knowledgeable by its semi-detached neighbours, the household’s earlier expertise of open-plan residing, and Burges’ recollections of buildings visited and studied. He explains that this wasn’t ‘a acutely aware collage, however as an architect you accumulate baggage’.
The winner of the RIBA Home of the Yr 2024 might be introduced on 3 December.
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