Garden House / Islington
A three storey home in a conservation area in Islington. The home did not have a garden, only a small courtyard at basement level...with little sun. The proposals remove an existing garage and excavates a lower ground living and office space creating a new full size garden at ground floor. A central courtyard and glazed floor creates a light filled room below and a garden which enjoys the sun.
The scheme offers significant value both in terms of lifestyle change and financial return given the increase in floor area and significant improvement in the external amenity space of this family home.
A fireplace is 'stretched' from the existing lower ground floor to connect the new underground room with the kitchen in the house and strengthens the cohesion between old and new.
Slim frame windows, structural glazing and power floated concrete offer a delicate modernity to this sunken space.
