Soft touch extension

With two small highly energetic daughters, our client asked for a kitchen extension to create a sociable family room with an air of calm.

The north facing orientation gave us a design challenge, along with planning and neighbour’s objections to anything which raised the ceiling heights to bring in light. We took inspiration from a modest eaves height at the boundary, and used sightlines to the nearby church to carve away from the traditional box-on-the-back-of-a-house.

This new quirky glazed gable directs the eye upwards through the terraced garden to the sky, rather than horizontally to the retaining walls of the patio.