Today we visited a small rear extension in Hampton we recently designed. More pictures to follow!
The project for a rear extension to a 1960’s semi-detached brick house in Hampton has been completed.
The existing property had been extended approximately 20 years ago go with a conservatory that used to be too hot in the summer and too cold in winter, as it often happens in these cases.
The clients’ brief was to remove the conservatory and build a new rear extension to match the existing conservatory in terms of footprint.
The rear extension was built under Permitted Development however its design was very different from the original volume of the old conservatory.
in order to provide the feeling of a more seamless transition between the existing spaces and the new one it was decided to design a flat roof extension that guaranteed a flat ceiling with the same height of the existing one.
This created a visual connection between the existing kitchen space and the new extension that was going to be used as a dining area.
Daylight was very important for our clients and one of the main points in their briefs was that they enjoyed the generous amount of light that they received through their conservatory and although they were ready to loose part of it, they still wanted to have a very bright extension.
The project also included a new side window to provide daylight and views to an existing playroom.
We ran a daylight simulation in order to finalize the position and size of the skylight, windows and French door.
Both us and our client were extremely happy with the result and the build extension confirmed what we had foreseen through our drawings.
“Iacopo is everything you want in an Architect. Talented, thoughtful, precise, punctual and fantastic value for money. He listened carefully to our specification, guided us when we were lacking in knowledge and responded incredibly well when we changed our minds. He took our ground floor extension from a pipe dream to a design in weeks, his skill set enabled the design to go through local planning at the first time of asking. He held ours hands whilst we chose the building company to complete the work. We literally could not be happier with Iacopo - brilliant!”