Our main priority is helping clients make great architecture that serves their needs and responds in a vital way to its context and cultural surroundings. In order to do this and to further the studios own knowledge base we invest in a wide programme of research which enables us to be inventive and to find new and sometimes unexpected solutions to the problems that we are posed.
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We work in collaboration with like-minded consultants in order to further our thinking and skill level and since our inception, we have always looked to develope concepts grounded by good research that have a light touch on the planet, are low in carbon and energy-use. We look to our research to help us and our clients mitigate the impact of climate change.
118 CR
118CR is a semi-detached two storey dwelling in Tolworth, sitting within the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames. The project develops a new rear extension, a total refurbishment externally and internally to the existing house, a new studio and a new staircase at the first floor and a loft extension in the existing attic for a growing family. The existing property was defined for a living/front room, separated from the rear with the stairs, a dining room and separated kitchen at the rear of the property with a little conservatory facing the garden. At ground floor the proposal integrates the kitchen and the dining with natural light coming from the ceiling in an open free space facing the garden, an incorporated lounge area at the entrance of the space, a new toilet and new utility room under the stairs.
The existing first floor included two standard size bedrooms, one small bedroom and a bathroom. The proposal create a new configuration for the bedrooms and the bathroom and transform the small bedroom in a study and allows the new stairs to access to the totally new loft. The previous attic now transformed as a loft includes a bedroom with views to the garden and natural illumination from the roof with access to the eaves creating a storage room accessed from the new closets, a separated bathroom and another studio in the hallway facing the front of the house that receive natural light from the roof. For the rear garden the proposal includes an elevated deck as an extension of the house to the garden.
Photography: Roberta Facchini
Date of completion: 2022
Total Cost: Confidential
Gross internal Floor Area: 115 sqm
Client: Facchini Family
Structural Engineer: White & Lloyd
Party Wall Surveyor: James Lewis Chartered Surveyors
Main Contractor: Analytic Limited
Photography: Roberta Facchini
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