One half of an extension to a house in north London is surrounded by
frameless glass, whilst the other half is encased in slatted timber.
Designed by local studio
DOSarchitects, the extension provides a new bedroom, kitchen and living room at the rear of the listed terrace in Islington.
The ridged iroko wood creates chunky pilasters around the bedroom,
while the open-plan kitchen and living area is separated from the garden
by nothing but glass.
Glass doors open both rooms out to the garden beyond.
This is the second timber and glass extension to an Islington house recently featured on Dezeen -
click here to see our earlier story about a larch-clad extension with a flower-covered roof.
Photography is by
Carlo Carossio.
Here’s a project description from DOSarchitects:
Duncan Terrace. Islington, London.
Our clients’ brief for this project was to add a modern ground floor
extension to their Grade II listed Georgian terraced house in Duncan
Terrace, Islington. More specifically, they wanted this extension to
contain an extra bedroom, a kitchen and a living space which would act
as a connection between the house and the garden whilst also respecting
the existing Georgian Architecture.
Our response, which obtained full conservation and planning approval,
was to create a split volume that, on one hand wouldn’t compete with
the existing Architecture and on the other offered a direct link to the
house’s surrounding:
The first and more solid volume takes the form of a wooden box which,
like a piece of Japanese origami, envelops the bedroom and literally
brings a natural element (Iroko wood) from the outside world to the
inside.
The second volume, entire in glass, brings natural light into the new
living space and acts as a visual link between the Georgian house, the
wooden box and the garden. The high tech structural glass used for this
volume, moreover, acts as a contrast to the beautifully handcrafted
timber slatted detail which envelops the adjacent volume.
Together they sit, comfortably, solid, transparent, old and new.
Approached by a private client, whose requirements were to have one
extra bedroom, to be protected from the elements and at the same time to
be connected with the external natural land space: we responded with
this little gem.
Here, the more private space, the newly added bedroom, which is the
protected part, is to merge and become part of the existing vegetation
by joining the trees and plants. Whereas the more public part, is to
still have a connection with the exterior landscape, but in a more
public and exposed way, having a direct link, visual and physical.
Wood was the natural choice for the cladding of the volume, as it
relates directly with its live surroundings and vegetation. Details such
as the Olive tree, of the same age of the house, 150 years old, are
only one of the connections between the interior and exterior.
Project credits
Architect: DOSarchitects
Engineer: Fluid Structures
Joinery and Cladding: Holloways of Ludlow
Project Manager: Alex Bardi
Building Contractor : Federico Amorosi & Bros
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