The Project
The practice's first built project was an upper apartment of an Edwardian house in Hampstead which was reconfigured and extended upwards. Living accommodation was concentrated on the lower level. A central kitchen-dining room was opened across the length of the house and lit by a 4m-high vertical light shaft, cut through the side walls of the upper floor.
The newly created upper space was considered not as an object as seen from outside - its zinc-clad exterior is barely visible from below- but as an internal element in the sequence of internal volumes.
In this bright, airy space, one wall swings away to reveal a roof terrace and opposite a corner window opens to views of the rooftops and a great expanse of sky.