The 1970s split-level home that became Elemental House was a perfect match for Johan Hybschmann, director at Archmongers, a London practice specialising in residential retrofit and modernist architecture houses that is known for its renovation of a 1972 apartment in the Barbican and Little Browning, a late 1960s home on Forest Hill’s Dulwich Estate named the winner of the Don’t Move, Improve 2022 competition.
No other buyer could see past the dangling wires and scurrying mice of this house in London's Clapton, which had been left untouched since the 1970s. But the potential was clear for Hybschmann and his wife, Anita Freeman, who soon set about turning the dark brick terraced house into a spacious, light-filled home swathed in greenery.
