Project Dates: 2024-
Use: Private House
Type: Refurbishment & Addition
Status: Planning
Gross Internal Area: 220 sqm / 2368 sqft
Client: Private
An existing bungalow typical of the bungalow bliss era will undergo a major refurbishment to bring it up to modern comfort and the needs of a multi-generational family.
Inspired by traditional rural farmsteads that are dotted all over the Dingle Peninsula, the refurbished house adopts an L-shaped, introverted courtyard typology designed to shelter a south-facing garden. This ‘outdoor room’ is shared by all of the surrounding spaces, providing light, ventilation and circulation, as well as providing shelter from the weather that sweeps in directly off the Atlantic Ocean.
The original bungalow's existing wet-dash external walls are preserved where possible, maintaining a connection to the past and celebrating the palimpsest of its plasterwork as horizontal strata. Inside, a unified folded roof spans the interior, echoing the design of traditional barn structures, creating a reassuring sense of enclosure and crafting an interior that feels both secure and inviting.
Use: Private House
Type: Refurbishment & Addition
Status: Planning
Gross Internal Area: 220 sqm / 2368 sqft
Client: Private
An existing bungalow typical of the bungalow bliss era will undergo a major refurbishment to bring it up to modern comfort and the needs of a multi-generational family.
Inspired by traditional rural farmsteads that are dotted all over the Dingle Peninsula, the refurbished house adopts an L-shaped, introverted courtyard typology designed to shelter a south-facing garden. This ‘outdoor room’ is shared by all of the surrounding spaces, providing light, ventilation and circulation, as well as providing shelter from the weather that sweeps in directly off the Atlantic Ocean.
The original bungalow's existing wet-dash external walls are preserved where possible, maintaining a connection to the past and celebrating the palimpsest of its plasterwork as horizontal strata. Inside, a unified folded roof spans the interior, echoing the design of traditional barn structures, creating a reassuring sense of enclosure and crafting an interior that feels both secure and inviting.
Project Dates: 2024-
Use: Private House
Type: Refurbishment & Addition
Status: Construction
Gross Internal Area: 28 sqm / 301 sqft
Client: Private
Luke Matone Architect was approached by a historian to design a reading room and writing refuge nestled into a hillside beside their vernacular stone farmhouse in rural, coastal County Kerry.
The form and appearance of the new building takes cues from the many single-barrel-vaulted agrarian hay-barn structures that are a common site in the immediate local area.
Linked to the existing house by a glazed internal corridor, views to and from the existing house and the rural site beyond are celebrated through an enfilade of day-lit spaces.
Internally, the material palette is intentially limited. The spines of the clients’ vast book collection will decorate a bespoke lining of oak shelving and low level plan cupboards. A south-facing window seat creates a space for respite, inviting relaxation and appreciation of the generous vaulted ceiling above and the expansive views across fields and farmland towards the Atlantic Ocean beyond.
Use: Private House
Type: Refurbishment & Addition
Status: Construction
Gross Internal Area: 28 sqm / 301 sqft
Client: Private
Luke Matone Architect was approached by a historian to design a reading room and writing refuge nestled into a hillside beside their vernacular stone farmhouse in rural, coastal County Kerry.
The form and appearance of the new building takes cues from the many single-barrel-vaulted agrarian hay-barn structures that are a common site in the immediate local area.
Linked to the existing house by a glazed internal corridor, views to and from the existing house and the rural site beyond are celebrated through an enfilade of day-lit spaces.
Internally, the material palette is intentially limited. The spines of the clients’ vast book collection will decorate a bespoke lining of oak shelving and low level plan cupboards. A south-facing window seat creates a space for respite, inviting relaxation and appreciation of the generous vaulted ceiling above and the expansive views across fields and farmland towards the Atlantic Ocean beyond.
Project Dates: 2023-2024
Use: Public House
Type: Refurbishment & Addition
Status: Complete
Gross Internal Area: 96 sqm / 1000 sqft
Client: Dick Mack’s Pub, Dingle
Luke Matone Architect was approached by Dick Mack’s Pub in Dingle to reconfigure the back area to provide a new bar, seating and modern toilet facilities.
The layout and materiality of the new back bar takes cues from the existing front bar, a stalwart of Dingle since 1899. The material palette is intentionally limited. Timber is employed practically and creatively. It is used as a wall lining to soften the acoustics, to provide decoration and ornamentation, and forms fixed furniture elements such as the bar counter, bar-shelving, seating and snugs.
Views through and access into adjacent rooms and spaces have been enhanced by retaining existing openings and creating new ones.
The use of repeated elements in the design is a key concept. On new walls, a timber veil of uniformly spaced CNC-machined solid oak 2”x 2” battens wraps the interior like a decorative ribbon along a horizontal datum. Below bar-counter height these battens are left solid. Above bar-counter height, at eye level, these battens are scalloped. Doors into toilets punctuate this ribbon. Fluted glass within snugs creates a mesh for privacy.
On the existing walls, the thick cement render has been removed in order to celebrate the historic stone fabric of the original house. Construction idiosyncracies have been celebrated: a lintel formed from a piece of the Dingle railway track has been exposed and sealed; brick reveals within openings in the stone walls have been repaired and extended.
A single storey rear extension creates a new room overlooking the south facing yard and towards Dick Macks Brewery. Behind the local stone façade, a nod to materiality of St Mary’s Church that sits over the road, the form of this room is derived from a thorough analysis of the scale and proportion of the existing rooms within the Victorian-era-built house.
Use: Public House
Type: Refurbishment & Addition
Status: Complete
Gross Internal Area: 96 sqm / 1000 sqft
Client: Dick Mack’s Pub, Dingle
Luke Matone Architect was approached by Dick Mack’s Pub in Dingle to reconfigure the back area to provide a new bar, seating and modern toilet facilities.
The layout and materiality of the new back bar takes cues from the existing front bar, a stalwart of Dingle since 1899. The material palette is intentionally limited. Timber is employed practically and creatively. It is used as a wall lining to soften the acoustics, to provide decoration and ornamentation, and forms fixed furniture elements such as the bar counter, bar-shelving, seating and snugs.
Views through and access into adjacent rooms and spaces have been enhanced by retaining existing openings and creating new ones.
The use of repeated elements in the design is a key concept. On new walls, a timber veil of uniformly spaced CNC-machined solid oak 2”x 2” battens wraps the interior like a decorative ribbon along a horizontal datum. Below bar-counter height these battens are left solid. Above bar-counter height, at eye level, these battens are scalloped. Doors into toilets punctuate this ribbon. Fluted glass within snugs creates a mesh for privacy.
On the existing walls, the thick cement render has been removed in order to celebrate the historic stone fabric of the original house. Construction idiosyncracies have been celebrated: a lintel formed from a piece of the Dingle railway track has been exposed and sealed; brick reveals within openings in the stone walls have been repaired and extended.
A single storey rear extension creates a new room overlooking the south facing yard and towards Dick Macks Brewery. Behind the local stone façade, a nod to materiality of St Mary’s Church that sits over the road, the form of this room is derived from a thorough analysis of the scale and proportion of the existing rooms within the Victorian-era-built house.
Project Dates: 2021-2022
Use: Architectural Office
Type: Refurbishment
Status: Complete
Gross Internal Area: 650 sqm / 7000 sqft
Client: Morris+Company Architects Ltd
From 2017 to 2023 Luke Matone worked as a project architect for Morris+Company Architects, leading their major refurbishment of a former warehouse in East London into their new multi-level, high-street-facing workspace.
The project was designed around the principals of sustainable strategies for re-use, recycling and flexibility, alongside a vision to create a place which would enable, engender and encourage a sense of interaction with the local community and wider public.
With a focus on circularity, as much of the existing building’s fabric has been reused. This included salvaging existing glazed partitions and re-incorporating them into a new modular timber storage partition system.
Simple, solid timber softwood, a low carbon material, was selected for the wall system. It was designed to be fully demountable and reconfigurable as needed in the future. The partitions draw sunlight across the ground floor, naturally illuminating them, and encouraging connections with the outside world.
The basement level accommodates a material archive, a model workshop, photography studio, and ‘end of journey’ and welfare facilities, mostly constructed using re-purposed joinery from previous studio fit outs.
At first floor there is a flexible studio space with 52 workstations, meeting spaces, enclosed private call booths, and breakout spaces.
Photography: Jack Hobhouse
Use: Architectural Office
Type: Refurbishment
Status: Complete
Gross Internal Area: 650 sqm / 7000 sqft
Client: Morris+Company Architects Ltd
From 2017 to 2023 Luke Matone worked as a project architect for Morris+Company Architects, leading their major refurbishment of a former warehouse in East London into their new multi-level, high-street-facing workspace.
The project was designed around the principals of sustainable strategies for re-use, recycling and flexibility, alongside a vision to create a place which would enable, engender and encourage a sense of interaction with the local community and wider public.
With a focus on circularity, as much of the existing building’s fabric has been reused. This included salvaging existing glazed partitions and re-incorporating them into a new modular timber storage partition system.
Simple, solid timber softwood, a low carbon material, was selected for the wall system. It was designed to be fully demountable and reconfigurable as needed in the future. The partitions draw sunlight across the ground floor, naturally illuminating them, and encouraging connections with the outside world.
The basement level accommodates a material archive, a model workshop, photography studio, and ‘end of journey’ and welfare facilities, mostly constructed using re-purposed joinery from previous studio fit outs.
At first floor there is a flexible studio space with 52 workstations, meeting spaces, enclosed private call booths, and breakout spaces.
Photography: Jack Hobhouse
Project Dates: 2019-2021
Use: Private House
Type: Refurbishment & Addition
Status: Complete
Gross Internal Area: 134 sqm / 1442 sqft
Client: Private
From 2017 to 2023 Luke Matone worked as a project architect for Morris+Company Architects, leading the design to planning of the extension to Walter Segal’s seminal home in Highgate.
A two-storey rear extension creates a living room, a study and a master-suite overlooking the house’s long garden. The proposal aims to complement the defining characteristic of Walter Segal’s prefabricated, modular, timber-framed vernacular, and adopts his principles of efficient, lightweight, sustainable construction. Whilst celebrating a sensitive new layer of contemporary architecture to the iconic home.
The composition of the rear extension is derived from thorough analysis of the logic and layout of the original garden and house. The sequence of volumes is stacked and slipped both vertically and horizontally, graduating away from the main house, in order to preserve the reading of Segal’s original architecture; whilst at the same time creating a new, and legible whole. The internal composition continues Segal’s original zig-zag route through the main house that reveals glimpses of each on-coming room as you walk through the interior.
The use of minimal repeated elements in the design is a key concept for the construction of the extension; from the structural components and interior lining, to the modulation of the cladding and envelope. To accommodate restricted site access, we developed a component-based construction system, whereby small elements can be brought in and assembled on site.
Externally, a timber veil of uniformly spaced timber battens that envelop the extension visually and structurally links with the timber palisades used in the original house to divide large windows. A textured concrete ribbon with high recycled content wraps the base of the extension to provide a plinth to the extension and protection between the timber structure and the ground.
Internally, a timber staircase and timber internal finishes offer a smooth, warm touch and a sense of security and comfort.
Model: William Guthrie
Model Photographs: Jack Hobhouse
Use: Private House
Type: Refurbishment & Addition
Status: Complete
Gross Internal Area: 134 sqm / 1442 sqft
Client: Private
From 2017 to 2023 Luke Matone worked as a project architect for Morris+Company Architects, leading the design to planning of the extension to Walter Segal’s seminal home in Highgate.
A two-storey rear extension creates a living room, a study and a master-suite overlooking the house’s long garden. The proposal aims to complement the defining characteristic of Walter Segal’s prefabricated, modular, timber-framed vernacular, and adopts his principles of efficient, lightweight, sustainable construction. Whilst celebrating a sensitive new layer of contemporary architecture to the iconic home.
The composition of the rear extension is derived from thorough analysis of the logic and layout of the original garden and house. The sequence of volumes is stacked and slipped both vertically and horizontally, graduating away from the main house, in order to preserve the reading of Segal’s original architecture; whilst at the same time creating a new, and legible whole. The internal composition continues Segal’s original zig-zag route through the main house that reveals glimpses of each on-coming room as you walk through the interior.
The use of minimal repeated elements in the design is a key concept for the construction of the extension; from the structural components and interior lining, to the modulation of the cladding and envelope. To accommodate restricted site access, we developed a component-based construction system, whereby small elements can be brought in and assembled on site.
Externally, a timber veil of uniformly spaced timber battens that envelop the extension visually and structurally links with the timber palisades used in the original house to divide large windows. A textured concrete ribbon with high recycled content wraps the base of the extension to provide a plinth to the extension and protection between the timber structure and the ground.
Internally, a timber staircase and timber internal finishes offer a smooth, warm touch and a sense of security and comfort.
Model: William Guthrie
Model Photographs: Jack Hobhouse
