A large semi-detached Victorian villa is transformed it into a sequence of suggestive spaces culminating with the façade of the extension where brick and steel come together to decorate the fabric of the building and create features that are expressed externally and internally.

The renovation of a Victorian terrace is approached as an ensemble of tasks with a series of independent outcomes and as a sequence of interventions that albeit modest, have an impact greater than their scope

This project offers the opportunity to revise and refine concepts and principles that FPA had outlined in the design of their house extension project in Surbiton where the project is split into two separate sub-briefs and organized around two distinctive new buildings.

The clients’ brief is interpreted as an opportunity to refine the appearance of the existing volumes overlooking the patio and devise a new external family room, framed by red cedar clap boards, laid to suggest a chevron floor pattern.

An imaginary pattern of criss-crossing visual lines inpires the renovation of an 1940s apartment in the historic Tuscan town of San Giovanni Valdarno.