AVELING

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.

At ground floor a carefully juggled set of spaces in the darker interior of the house allow for a walk-pantry, separate utility room, ground floor WC and cloakroom before a set of double doors concealed within the kitchen unit design open into a really expansive kitchen, dining, working and living space. The front room of the house at ground floor remains as a dark and cosy sitting room. The Richlite kitchen units and Panbeton cladding panels used on the extension wall reflect similar circular detailing to tie the extension together, with steelwork exposed so as not to hide the nature of the side addition to the space, and be honest as to the development of the building over time.

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.

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.