Calabria Road
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View of extension from garden
Waghorn Gwynne Architects Download Original
Extension to house in North London with attention to providing natural light, accommodating an extensive book collection and creating a more intimate link with garden
A house extension for a client who was short of space both inside and out. The solution was to demolish the existing rear two-storey extension and replace it with a 5m high garden room and gallery, which brings light into the previously dark house.
Bookcases furnish the garden room, which looks out onto a garden that is now on two levels, greatly increasing the density of planting that one sees from inside. In addition, the building itself has been turned into a ‘vertical garden’, with strongly articulated horizontal trellis bars up which climbing plants will scramble.
Data
- Completed: 2007
- Sector: House
- Total cost: £200,000
- Address: Calabria Road, London, N5, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Waghorn Gwynne Architects
- Client: Private