A whole-house refurbishment on this project involved extensions, re-working and integration of the house and garden areas. The clients wanted to maximise features remaining where possible on the existing period house while providing contrastingly modern additions at ground and roof level to flood the house with light. Emphasis was needed on calm and restrained sense of space, without this becoming too ‘blank,’ and light was considered very much as a key ‘material’ within the design scheme.
The existing building took the form of a three-bed Edwardian terraced house, with a rear garden backing onto the tree-edged border of a local park. The clients wanted to maximise a sense of connection to this green space, while also extending and modernising the existing building.
The existing front bathroom was cramped and unfit for a modern home, so this was turned into a more spacious shower room and a bathroom created in the loft with expansive views from a picture window over the bath to the park, to really make the most of the position of the space.
At ground floor an extension to the rear replaced and enlarged the kitchen, with the entire space opened up to create a visual transition from the more traditional front of the house to the modern rear area, with a window seat in the dining area and a centralised kitchen area to allow the entire ground floor to be used for entertaining.
The scheme integrates a green roof into the timber clad extension to maximise the sense of the site blending into the park through use of complimentary materials, and made use of a small lean-to roof form present in the original house to create a vaulted roof light bringing natural light deep into the space. The overall project has a calm and restrained materials palette, while maximising the use of the movement of light through the house to bring energy to the space.
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