This 1970s house has been extended and adapted over the decades with the interior spaces mostly working for the new owners. The clients wanted us to examine how to adapt and extend the property to improve the following:

• Overall aesthetic to the frontage and the street aspect.
• Improving the entrance hallway and the first engagement of the house.
• Extending the house to use some of the large parking front.
• Use of the internal garage as new spaces.
• Addition of a new workshop and garage.
• Addition of a new home office space.

This scheme blends new additions with the old whilst giving the frontage a fresh aesthetic that challenges the architecture of the area. The volumes pulled out from the exterior of the property are generated by the requirement for three key spatial additions – new entrance porch, a home office and a new garage / workshop. These volumes are then staggered both horizontally forward from the front of the house and then also stepped vertically so the flat roofs lead you up to the entrance porch roof from the lowest roof of the garage / workshop element.

The volumes work together to form a comfortable arrangement internally that also generates new spaces externally in the form of a private courtyard garden. In order to produce a design that is sympathetic and softens the external appearance of the harsh front driveway we have designed these as stepped sedum green roofs that will add an ecological factor and natural aesthetic to the exterior. Alongside this using different materials on the exterior freshens the whole aesthetics of the property. Timber cladding and burgundy red tiles breaks up the white render of the house.

The scheme has gained planning permission in August 2021 and we are currently on site with the construction of this project with RPL Construction. The works are due to be finished in the Autumn of 2024. We will keep you posted of the works on our social media platforms.