Wimbledon | SW19

We were appointed to redesign this large house in Wimbledon Village, including replacing the existing ground floor extension and enlarging the basement, creating a rear light well and better connecting all internal living spaces to the garden. The work also was to include creating a master suite and reconfiguring the bedrooms on the first and second floor.

Given the large extensions to the rear, both at ground and basement level, we designed a concrete frame that connected the ground floor and basement sliding crittall-style doors, in order to create some unity and rationalise the extensions. The kitchen area was treated as a separate form that sat on top of the concrete frame and was to be clad in charred Accoya - thus making it appear like a lightweight structure on top and introducing a different material. The texture of the timber also was proposed as a contrast to the smooth concrete. In order to keep the frame as thin as possible, the concrete was chamfered - with a more exaggerated angle on the basement extension. Large 3.5metre high crittall-style, thermally broken doors were proposed for the ground and basement extensions, with a window to match the crittall-style located in the kitchen area. Large roof lights to the ground floor flat roof also help bring good levels of natural light deep within the large, open-plan ground floor.

The crittall-style doors were proposed in a bronze tone to pick up the warmth of the timber cladding and the red brick detailing of the existing house.