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This terrace house refurbishment
and ‘infill’ rear extension creates flexible living,
dining, kitchen and study spaces while adding
generous double height volume and abundant light to
a previously dark interior. The design brought a dank
rear external alley space into the house with the
double height ‘infill’ glazed extension. The repeating
‘hit and miss’ pattern of the existing terrace rear
returns presented the opportunity to create a private
and vertically generous infill extension, since the
party wall was both unusually tall and windowless.
Finished in a beautifully crafted traditional parquet
Portland Limestone, the new excavated floor level
creates a more comfortable ‘middle ground’ between
garden and basement levels without ceiling heights
being compromised. The rich material qualities of the
floor are matched above with a timber soffit finished
in warm oak battens. The oak soffit sweeps upwards
at the existing house, revealing a frameless glass
opening to sky allowing daylight Into the heart of the
house. The study at entrance level enjoys a mezzanine
relationship with the new spaces, with views over
a frameless balustrade across the new double height
space to the garden and beyond, through a huge new
pivot glazed aluminium door and clerestorey above.
SIZE: 159 SQM
AREA ADDED: 9 SQM
AREA REFURBISHED:
150 SQM
ARCHITECT: PROCTOR & SHAW
CONTRACTOR: ROBERTO NUNEZ & DANNY NUNEZ
BUILDING CONTROL:
QUADRANT APPROVED INSPECTORS ENGINEERS:
STRUCTURES IN DESIGN
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