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

The design approach of this maisonette in London’s Notting Hill adopts a phenomenological strategy devised to stimulate the bodies of the users when negotiating different spaces, whether ascending or descending.

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.

Two linear volumes of differing depth are arranged side by side with distinguished different treatment of their exterior to create a bold extension on the ground floor of a townhouse in the hip neighbourhood of Brixton.