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Sheridan Avenue

The clients had been living in this 1930s detached house for some time and they were keen to increase the amount of living space at ground floor and to bring indoor the fresh, relaxed garden atmosphere.

The property site is on a steep slope and the front house has got the floating feeling of being on a boat. The first step for us was to understand the topography and how to convert these original constraints into links throughout the building and the surroundings.

We discussed how to incorporate an existing Store Room to the rear of the Kitchen/Utility Room. Having converted the Store Room into in a Sitting Room/ Guest Room and designed possible ways of linking the room to the house and the side steps down into the Garage, we also straightened the wall facing the patio to liberate circulation area and gain small amount of additional floor space. Domestic intimacy and a peaceful sense of place merge in this pretty little project.

North Town Moor

This property was a three bedroom 1960’s semi-detached house set in the outskirts of Maidenhead. The clients had already carried out a two storey extension towards the backyard and some internal refurbishment. They approached us during the phase of re-arranging the Kitchen and Entrance Hall/ Stairs layouts to reconfigure an open plan Kitchen/ Breakfast Room with views over the rear garden. We discussed the configuration of the new Kitchen/ Breakfast Room and how this would link with the possible conversion of the existing rear Garage into a residential Annex and single storey link between the house and the Garage. We looked at the possible roof design which could also have an aesthetic impact on the existing lean-to roof towards the back of the house.

The transition zone, linking the main house with the Annex for the parents, was designed as a sunny place where they could meet up as in a garden dayroom. This inner shared patio, is the main feature of the building now, and it is characterized by glazed corner doors and a central lantern.

By giving dignity to any architectural period and style, we chose to create a dialogue with the 60s building identity and language and reinterpreting its material and proportions into the modern extension, as in the windows or in the simplicity of the facade.

This silent neutral annex, infilling the plot, introduced a concept of capillarity, a distinctive element of an urban environment, into the architectural scale of a residential plot.

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