Hugo Road
Location: Tufnell Park, London
, UK
Status: Built
Area: 171m² / 1,840ft²
2019-21
The clients bought the house for the garden. South-west facing, generous, full of afternoon light. The problem was getting there — through the utility room, out a door nobody used, and up a half flight of outdoor stairs.
We moved the kitchen downstairs. One decision, one floor removed. The ceiling had been under two metres; the dining space that opened up is four and a half. A new stair made the lower ground somewhere worth going. A side extension turns to face the garden rather than the house.
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Then the garden itself was dug out — dropped to meet the new floor level, terraced in concrete and pigmented render, planted by Dan Corby-Bristow. The thing they'd bought the house for became the thing the whole ground floor is organised around.
The street frontage is unchanged. From the inside, the house is barely recognisable.
Process
Concept design
Original house condition
Drawings
149.
Hugo Road
Year:
2019-21
Restrictions: Conservation area
CF team: Oliver Cooke, Francis Fawcett; Seb Birch, Liz Ferguson, Andy Gibbs
Structural design: Blue Engineering
Contractor: JK Construction
Photos: Peter Landers