Modern Side Extension
An Elegant Solution to an Age Old Problem
This Queens Park Transformation unites social spaces, improves light, and repurposes an alley. A brick pier and frameless glazing blend indoors and outdoors, minimizing planning impact while enhancing warmth, efficiency, and design.
This project in Queens Park, London, transforms a typical terraced property struggling with light penetration issues and disconnected social spaces. The goal was to unify these areas, enhance natural light, strengthen the garden connection, and utilise the neglected side alley. Eschewing standard extension approaches, the design integrates the house volume with a brick pier, creating a design-focused blend of solid and void.
This blurs boundaries between old and new, and inside and outside. Slim aluminium doors and frameless rooflight glazing dissolve these distinctions, enabling light to flood the property. Importantly, this angled form reduces impact on neighbours and aligns with conservation guidelines, minimising planning risk.
Internally, materials such as polished concrete, brick, oak, and white sprayed joinery provide warmth and contextual sophistication, avoiding a cold, clinical aesthetic. This modern, efficient extension respects planning considerations and offers a replicable innovative solution for similar settings.
Light : Long and Tall View
Slim aluminium bi-fold doors and frameless rooflight glazing blur the line between interior and exterior, virtually transforming the outside into an additional room of the house while enabling natural light to flood deep into the property.
Craft : Beautifully Composed
Externally, the design merges brick, glass, and bi-fold doors into a sophisticated three-dimensional arrangement that respects the conservation area. Internally, the materials — polished concrete floors, brick, European oak, and white sprayed MDF joinery — exude warmth and modern simplicity.
