Percées lumineuses / CA-Castello Avenue hansonarchitects.co.uk
Private dwelling to be rented (8th September 2009 & 11th January 2010 (two phases) - 22nd June 2010)
/ client (investor)
project architect - full services
(pitch, design development, planning permission, tender, construction,interior design)
/ client (investor)
- London, Putney SW15
- Footprint 80 sqm + étage 50sqm + extension 15sqm
- Complete refurbishment + rear extension and terrace
- Contract sum > £170,000
project architect - full services
(pitch, design development, planning permission, tender, construction,interior design)
Description of Project
This project consists of the extension and refurbishment of a Victorian, two-storey coach house set in a quiet suburban part of Putney in South London. The house is relatively small and located on a narrow plot with a front parking area and a long rear garden.
We were involved in a protracted dispute over the planning consent with a neighbour and so the project was delayed at the end of 2009. Happily this was resolved and worked started again at the beginning of 2010.
The house was opened up at the back forming a first floor terrace and an extended kitchen/living room on the ground floor. The ground floor originally contained two small rooms and an exterior passageway at the rear, this was all converted into a single garden room and the front garage converted into a drawing room.
We employed a deceptively simple structural framework, a superposition of two cantilevered frames that stabilise each other and enable us to open the whole of the ground floor of the rear of the building with glass doors which slide right round neatly to the side leaving the cantilevered corner of the building free.
Great effort was been expended creating a space that seemed to have no limits extending into the long garden. Transparent and open-able screens, glass roofs, doors and mirrors have all been employed to draw light into the heart of the house at different times of the day and to merge inside and outside spaces
The tight budget constraints necessitated a clever use of economic building materials and products which were very carefully detailed so that the very high quality of the building work was not compromised.
This project consists of the extension and refurbishment of a Victorian, two-storey coach house set in a quiet suburban part of Putney in South London. The house is relatively small and located on a narrow plot with a front parking area and a long rear garden.
We were involved in a protracted dispute over the planning consent with a neighbour and so the project was delayed at the end of 2009. Happily this was resolved and worked started again at the beginning of 2010.
The house was opened up at the back forming a first floor terrace and an extended kitchen/living room on the ground floor. The ground floor originally contained two small rooms and an exterior passageway at the rear, this was all converted into a single garden room and the front garage converted into a drawing room.
We employed a deceptively simple structural framework, a superposition of two cantilevered frames that stabilise each other and enable us to open the whole of the ground floor of the rear of the building with glass doors which slide right round neatly to the side leaving the cantilevered corner of the building free.
Great effort was been expended creating a space that seemed to have no limits extending into the long garden. Transparent and open-able screens, glass roofs, doors and mirrors have all been employed to draw light into the heart of the house at different times of the day and to merge inside and outside spaces
The tight budget constraints necessitated a clever use of economic building materials and products which were very carefully detailed so that the very high quality of the building work was not compromised.