Following on from our work in renovating their house, our Client asked us to look at reconfiguring the rear of the building at the upper and lower ground floor levels: The garden was detached from the house with a very convoluted access from the house and a recently built conservatory simply added to the sense of dislocation from the outdoors.
We demolished the conservatory, excavated at the rear and built a wide and generous access from the lower ground floor up to the garden, linked to the lower ground floor by new glazed doors. We built a new balcony at the Upper Ground floor level, linking the kitchen to the garden and a new entrance from the stair landing. The pallet of materials we used was deliberately simple: for the walls and paving the Petersen Kolumbia long brick with a horizontal raked joint in the vertical plane and for the balcony and doors: western red cedar.