CLIENT PRIVATE
LOCATION CHISWICK
PROJECT VALUE £370,000
DURATION 9 MONTHS
STATUS COMPLETED 2018

CONTRACTOR SPACE BASEMENTS / DESIGN YOUR BASEMENT
GLAZING FINELINE ALUMINIUM

Architects Design London Barrowgate Road. Having already designed the roof extension to this large, Edwardian home, we were asked by our private client to rethink the basement and rear of the house. The existing, small basement was substantially excavated and extended to form a spacious and light games room, gym, and wine store. A new lightweight, steel and glass stair was installed to connect the kitchen and dining area to the games room. We remodelled the glass extension with new Fineline Aluminium units and bronze cladding, and formed a new terrace overlooking the garden.

CLIENT PRIVATE CLIENT
STATUS DUE FOR COMPLETION LATE 2019
LOCATION HERTFORDSHIRE
PROJECT VALUE £TBC

PLANNING CONSULTANT QUOD

STRUCTURAL & CIVIL ENGINEER ANDREW FIREBRACE PARTNERSHIP LTD

CONTRACTOR HAYTER BUILDERS LTD

The Barn House used to be a pig barn in the pasture next to our clients’ home, lying in the Green Belt. It took a permitted development application, and a lengthy, but successful, planning appeal before the development could get underway.

To maintain the strict planning requirement of creating no additional volume above ground level, we have designed a new family home with a sunken level, leading onto its own private courtyard.

The house will have an open roof structure and a gallery connecting the ground floor and lower ground floor. The living spaces are generous and have astounding views out to the Hertfordshire countryside.

CLIENT PRIVATE
STATUS COMPLETED, 2006
LOCATION FOWNHOPE, HERTFORD

CONTRACTOR S.W. MORGAN LTD
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER MARTYN PETERS

The Client’s brief and architectural intention for this award-winning extension, was to continue the 1950’s idiom and ensure that  massing and scale of the proposal works with the existing building grain and does not dominate the site, while providing a simple but exquisitely detailed solution that allows the client to fully enjoy the property and garden setting.

The house occupies a site that was originally developed in the 1950’s. The wider site would have formed the extensive grounds of Fownhope Court. An impressive gentleman’s house, complete with; a lake, a waterfall, water sluice to regulate the lake height, mature trees, rhododendrons and other spectacular estate planting. Alas this has long since gone having been built upon in the 1950’s.  However the mature trees remain and are as impressive as ever, dominating the skyline, and an 80ft tall ‘Hornbeam’ in the garden forms the focus of the new extension.

As one approaches the proposed extension from the street it is set back from the main house and as a result does not dominate or detract from the presence of the original 1950’s facade. The structure is clad with a natural Cedar timber rain screen, to harmonise and blend in with the natural wooded surroundings. This helps to reduce the mass of the extension by not crowding and dominating the existing facade. The cladding also forms the up and over garage door so that the whole facade reads as one elevation.

The massing of the proposed building is such, that a glazed link is introduced between the existing house and the extension. This is an architectural device, that breaks up the scale of the building so that it ties in with the adjoining structure much more satisfactorily by not crowding the existing facade. The glazed link also allows light to be brought into the centre of the plan, as well as reducing costs by not having to tie heavy structure into the existing fabric of the building.

CLIENT PRIVATE
STATUS PENDING
LOCATION HAMPTON, MIDDLESEX
PROJECT VALUE £800,000

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER CONSTRUCTURE
COST CONSULTANT COLLABORA CONSULTING
PARTY WALL SURVEYOR CONWAY ASSOCIATES
RIGHTS OF LIGHT RIGHT OF LIGHT CONSULTING
TRANSPORT COTSWOLD TRANSPORT PLANNING

Our private clients asked us to design a new house for them and their family on this pleasant, tree-lined avenue in Hampton. The planning process involved detailed negotiation with the local planning authority, including transport, daylighting, and rights of light reports being issued.

The accommodation includes six bedrooms, family living area, large kitchen, study, drawing room, and large master suite.

PROJECT PARTLY UNDERTAKEN TRADING AS RRA ARCHITECTS LONDON LIMITED

CLIENT PRIVATE
STATUS COMPLETED, 2017
LOCATION KEW, LONDON
PROJECT VALUE £640K

CONTRACTOR ANALYTIC
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER ZUSSMAN BEAR
COST CONSULTANT COLLABORA CONSULTING
PARTY WALL SURVEYOR DIXON PAYNE
SPECIALIST GLAZING FINEPOINT
KITCHEN RICHMOND KITCHENS
BATHROOMS BATHROOMS BY DESIGN

Located in a sought after residential road in leafy Kew Gardens, West London; this substantial extension and refurbishment project to a private residence adds a generously-volumed rear extension, two-storey side extension and loft conversion.

The design opens up to a garden-facing kitchen and family room and, with careful planning, has added a music room, study and media room. Upstairs, the bedrooms have been transformed with the addition of a new bathroom and en-suite.

We also extended into the loft space, creating a large bedroom with its own shower-room. This top room has the best views of the house; looking out over the newly landscaped garden and on to a verdant cemetery. To make the upper floors’ views even better, we incorporated a green roof on the rear extension.

This upgrade has successfully equipped the early 1900s semi-detached property for modern family living.

CLIENT PRIVATE
STATUS COMPLETED, 2017
LOCATION RICHMOND, LONDON
PROJECT VALUE £177,000

CONTRACTOR DANIEL RENOVATIONS
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER ZUSSMAN BEAR
SPECIALIST GLAZING MET THERM WINDOWS

This project to a 1920’s semi-detached house in the suburbs of the London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames includes remodelling to the main living spaces and extensions to the rear and first floor bathroom. The largest intervention to the house is the stylish and comfortable garden room. With specialist slim-framed metal glazing and suspended bio ethanol fire, this extension connects the inside spaces to the garden with a light touch and warm quality.