Welcome to a constructing with tales to inform. Within the sixteenth century, the stately construction served as one in all Somerset’s major hubs, a wool corridor for buying and selling fleece. 4 hundred years later the landmark was getting used as one of many UK’s premier recording studios—residing quarters within the previous corridor, music studios added out again.
Tears for Fears owned the complicated after which Van Morrison. The Treatment, The Smiths, Annie Lennox, and Joni Mitchell all recorded right here. The present proprietor, a musician and document producer who needs to stay nameless, employed Tuckey Design Studio to carry out a radical overhaul.
Specialists in historic resuscitations with a modern-minimalist purity, the Tuckey crew led by architect Mariza Daouti had been tasked with rethinking the setup as a full-time household residence and recording studio. It was a tall order. Regardless of the property’s vibrant previous, right here’s what they confronted: “a chilly and leaky stone constructing fragmented by poorly constructed Eighties extensions…Wool Corridor had developed into an amalgamation of many supplies, eras and kinds, the coherence of the unique format misplaced beneath layers of unsympathetic additions.”
“The venture was threefold, a restoration, a retrofit and an adaptive reuse,” the architects advised Dezeen. “We had loads of inventive freedom as a consequence of its state of decay and [the addition’s] lack of architectural benefit; the problem was to make these venerable opposites distinct in their very own proper however complementary as a part of the identical residence.” Many months of labor later, the place is an eccentric however elegantly built-in combine spanning centuries, a bit bit Elizabethan, a bit bit rock ‘n roll. Let’s have a look.
Pictures by James Brittain, except famous, all courtesy of Tuckey Design Studio.
