MODERN SIDE EXTENSION
An uncompromisingly modern solution to the expansion of a terraced home on a budget
Our sensitive but clever response for a terraced home retrofit uses conservation area-friendly brick, glass and bifold doors to unite a new complex three-dimensional composition. The materials are warm and non-ostentatious. The bi-fold doors and frameless rooflight glazing dissolves the distinction between inside and out and allow light deep into the property.
Modern Side Extension is a homely and uncompromisingly modern answer to the question of how to extend a terraced home. Its success proves that even the smallest architectural projects can be transformational.
SOLID & VOID
Coffey Architects have avoided both the typical glass side infill solution and the intrusive projecting rear extension by reversing the infill condition. Built from contextually apt London Stock brick, this essentially involves a structural solution that allows the existing volume of the house to slip past a brick pier; a continuation of the party wall. The composition is a subtle game of solid and void, breaking down the threshold between new and old, inside and outside.
STRONG, WARM MATERIALS THAT AGE BEAUTIFULLY
The self‐finished internal materials including polished concrete floors, brick, European oak and white sprayed MDF joinery add a sense of context and warmth; a key criteria of the client who wished to avoid the cold and clinical aesthetic of many contemporary residential projects.
DISSOLVING THE BOUNDARIES
Slim aluminium bi‐fold doors and frameless rooflight glazing ensure the distinction between inside and outside is dissolved; in effect making the exterior another room of the house and allowing light to permeate deep within the property. No columns, no dodgy glazed infills, no ostentatious materials.
LOCATION
London, UK
SIZE
1,399 sqft
STATUS
Completed in 2015
CLIENT
Private
AWARDS
/ RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize - shortlisted
/ RIBA London Award - won
/ AJ Retrofit Best House under £250k Award - won
/ AJ Small Project Award - shortlisted