Penfold

Date: 2021

Architect/Designer: De Matos Ryan Architects

Structural Engineer: Price & Myers

Location: London

Timber Workshop was commissioned to fully fabricate and install a children’s play ‘treehouse’ in the back garden of a London home.

The structure needed to be prefabricated in pieces and carried through the house via domestic scaled doors.  When assembled the triangular Douglas Fir frames combined to make a truncated pyramidal form.  The Siberian Larch slatted cladding has a stainless-steel cable lattice to encourage climbing plants over the volume and ultimately create the sense of a tree that never was.

Photos: Hufton and Crow