Terraced extension
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Project • By ANIEA • Private Houses
Terraced house transformation
The existing, extreme range is a single-family house from the 1970s burdened with usability and functional shortcomings, resulting from the housing standards of that time, years of accumulation, and modifications. The Investors intended the house to become a comfortable, spacious, modern, and friendly space for an energetic retired couple. The plan, therefore, envisions not so much a correction as a true revolution both inside and outside.
Andrzej Niegrzybowski
The Investors' experiences and their specific needs served as a starting point for the initial work, but with freedom and trust, they did not limit them; rather, they encouraged unconventional solutions. Technical limitations of the building itself and the unfavorable proportio... More
News • News • 10 Nov 2021
Magri Williams Architects carefully explore form and materiality to achieve soft transitions between new and existing
In the Stroud Green Conservation Area of North London, the sensitive surrounding context was the starting point for this full-width rear extension by Magri Williams Architects. By carefully exploring form and materiality, the architects have achieved a soft transition between new and existing.
Ståle Eriksen
The overall form of the extension responds to the form of the original building and its roof angles with pitched blocks that are stepped. This step helps to define the interior character of the extension’s space and the step is further echoed in the landscape.
Ståle Eriksen
The transition between indoors and outdoors is navigated with large square window frames, a pivot door and an angled roof li... More
News • News • 12 Apr 2021
Overcast House informed by a client’s passionate knowledge and interest in colour and light
Overcast House by Office S&M Architects is a single-storey rear extension to a Victorian house in north London. The project name speaks to the central design concept of bringing indirect light into the interior space as well as the extension’s ‘shadow catcher’ external skin, which is made up of pigmented cast concrete blocks that model shadows on the rear façade even in the absence of direct sun.
Megan Taylor
The house owners are Keiko Cummings, a Japanese personal colour consultant and graphic designer, and her husband Alan, an academic. The task was to create an evenly lit space that could be used as a kitchen and living areas as well as an artist’s studio with table seating for 10-person consultat... More