Innox Lodge
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East garden elevation
This project for a new family garden room challenges the formality of the existing Victorian lodge to provide casual connections between the kitchen, converted basement and garden
Designed to maximise the aspect across the surrounding fields, the structure adopts two cantilevered steel beams to allow the glazing (incorporating a fixed glass-to-glass corner) to open in wide, diverse configurations to blur the boundary between building and landscape.
The extent of the adjacent modified elevation of the house is read through the linear rooflight that casts light onto the new stair leading into the basement, both elements visually separating the new from old. Lead, in preformed panels on elevation and rolled sheet on the roof, tethers the lightweight glass to the mass of the traditional host building, whilst the bath stone pier to the south nods to the formal principle elevation, screening the casual activity beyond.
Data
- Begun: Sep 2011
- Completed: Feb 2012
- Floor area: 35m2
- Sector: House
- Total cost: £140,000
- Funding: Private
- Tender date: Mar 2011
- Address: Innox Lodge, Somerset, BA2, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Designscape Architects
- Project architects: Chris Mackenzie, Mark Wray
- Client: Mr and Mrs Robertson
- Structural engineer: Momentum Consulting Engineers
- General contractor : Stuart Sawyer / Phil Trevor
Suppliers
- Rooflight, Glazing Subcontractor: Cantifix Interwest
