A new build 2 bedroom house of 90 sq m in north london. The client faced a typical problem for young people in London and the south east of England and was unable to afford to buy an apartment in the local area. His parents
A refurbishment and extension to a typical suburburban 1930's North London house. A housing type that is characteristic of the interwar housing boom that followed the 30's Piccadilly Line extension deep into the suburbs. The house has adapted and extended over the years to respond to changing
A refurbishment to a Grade 2* listed house in East Sussex. The house, known locally as 'The Georgian House' was later remodelled by Edwin Lutyens under Norman Shaw. Shaw's work was notable for its neo-Adam decorative plasterwork and Lutyens remodelled for Shaw in the style
The third project in the series of 'cut' types. Each project manipulates an existing building; one is Victorian and the other two are inter-war. They all share a fairly typical need to adapt a pre-existing residential building type to modern family living, but all address
An addition and remodelling to a Victorian house in Twickenham. An imprint of the existing front facade of the house is relocated within a floating stainless steel frame to the front of a new side addition. This floating facade is separated from both the new
The project responds to a sloping site with a 2 storey elevation to the rear and a stepping 3 storey elevation to the front. The rear of the house embeds itself into the landscape and a series of gabion walls provide a transition from the
A rear addition, landscape and internal remodelling to a Grade 2 listed house in East Sussex. The existing listed house is an amalgam of different eras of building. There are 3 key built elements defined by their time periods. The original house, buried within the core
An addition to a C19 farm workers cottage in the Hertfordshire Green Belt. The isolated rural location affords the site uninterrupted views to the flat line of the distant horizon on three sides. These powerful views form the organisation of the addition which forms a
Ashton Porter were invited by Channel 4 to take part in the second series of "Ugly House to Lovely House" presented by George Clarke. The project is situated in an estate of late C20 developer private housing. Whilst the estate is typical of such out-of-town developments