Hugo Road
Location: Tufnell Park, London
, UK
Status: Built
Area: 171m² / 1,840ft²
2019-21
Our clients bought their house for the garden. South-west facing, generous, full of afternoon light. The problem was getting there, through an awkward basement side door, then up a half flight of outdoor stairs.
Exploring ideas together, we settled on moving the kitchen downstairs, opening the lower ground floor spaces to the garden with a generous new double height space. This key decision defines the project: a low ceiling that had been under two metres became a dramatic dining area opening up to four and a half. A new stair arrangement ties everything together and opens up views through the house. The side extension turns to face the garden.
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The garden was dug out to meet the new floor level, terraced in stone and pigmented render. The lush planting, a collaboration with landscape designer Studio Bristow brings texture, colour and dappled shading right up to the building. What our clients had always seen in the house became the focal point of the whole design.
From the street, the Victorian frontage is retained. Inside, the house is transformed as contemporary living spaces open out to the new garden.
Process
Concept design
Construction
Original 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