Structure studio DHaus used a full-width skylight to attract gentle into this north London extension, which is completed in a subdued palette of pale brick, plaster and oak.
Referred to as Datum Home, the present Victorian maisonette within the dialog space of Dartmouth Park has been opened up by DHaus to the decrease floor stage and prolonged with a further bed room.
“The design not solely addressed the shoppers' want to convey gentle deep into the house, but additionally created a way of openness hardly ever present in floor ground areas,” DHaus co-founder Daniel Woolfson advised Dezeen.
Beforehand, the bottom ground of the home was laid out with a kitchen on the entrance and a dimly lit dwelling space and toilet on the again.
DHaus added a rear extension to create house for a spacious dwelling, eating and kitchen space, which is lit by giant home windows overlooking the backyard and a full-width skylight above.
The skylight creates the impact of separating the rear facade of the home from the inside, increasing the sense of house whereas additionally giving the “phantasm” of being outdoors, the studio stated.
Each concrete and oak panels kind the namesake information across the base of this house, which extends right into a gently sunken walled backyard. This transitions to an unbiased backyard studio on the finish of the positioning.
“We tried to separate the facade wall from the principle construction with a full-width, wall-to-wall skylight, which created an optical phantasm that makes you’re feeling nearly outdoors, searching into the backyard,” stated Woolfson .
“We made the skylight as extensive as doable to ensure it's as shiny as doable and doesn't really feel like a basement,” he added.
“I expressed the change in stage from the backyard stage to the sunken courtyard with a steady reference line that extends across the outer courtyard and continues inside on the eating room joinery.”
The house freed up on the entrance of the home was used to create a further bed room alongside a toilet, whereas the higher ground containing the main bedroom was left unchanged.
As a result of web site's place in a conservation space, the outside of the extension wanted to be in step with the neighboring buildings. DHaus opted for pale brick, which is laid vertically in a stack bond to subtly set the brand new addition aside.
That is married with earth plaster and oak furnishings all through the inside.
“The monolithic stack-glued brick rear facade seems as an architectural aspect in its personal proper, its deep recesses serving the sensible goal of concealing the sliding doorways and curtain rail,” defined Woolfson.
DHaus, previously often called The DHau Firm, was based in 2010 by Woolfson with David Ben-Grunberg. The studio's earlier residential extensions embody a London extension clad in a wide range of completely different formed timber shingles and a refurbished terraced home with a butterfly roof extension.
Images is by James Retief.