A design that celebrates a recycling and reclaimed materials.

A single storey side and rear extension to a 1930’s semi-detached house, the main aim was to improve the amenity and liveability of the home more appropriate for contemporary family life and reconnect the house and garden. The design also addresses practical modern family needs, a new back door and utility space creates a place for all the mess to go, along with a downstairs WC and shower room to serve the new bedroom.

The new extension creates a generous open-plan family space centred around the kitchen - A social space for cooking, eating, chatting, playing and being together. The existing detached garage is connected to the house and converted to provide an additional downstairs bedroom/ study space that sits as a pavilion in the garden. This creates a new courtyard to the garden that supports a desire for improved connection with the garden.

An honest approach to the design that celebrates the reuse and recycling the building structure and materials, reclaimed bricks add texture to the extension whilst and steel framed windows provides character and a raw feeling. The new additional sits comfortably with the existing house but does not seek to match or replicate it. The pitched roof form to the rear extension, which contains the main open plan family space is expressed internally and provides for an increased ceiling height exposing the roof structure above.