A side addition to the ground floor flat within an end-of-terrace house divided into two flats on a corner site; the solution adopted in a limited space was to maintain maximum light to regularly used habitable rooms by locating utility and bathroom within the darkest area of the original hallway whilst ensuring good ventilation;

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rather than maintain the previously combined entrance on Kempe Rd, the design takes advantage of the proximity of the side street Peploe Road to create a new separate side entrance for this ground floor flat with direct access off the road central to the interior rooms;

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the clients who had lived in Japan for 25 years were keen to incorporate the suggestion of using sliding inline doors forming a floor-to-ceiling glazed link to the small garden which neatly accomodate shoji screens and open up the overall site-space to the full; good west toplight bathes the kitchen and entrance hall in light from a glazed monopitch roof;

 

the walk-in ensuite shower has a glazed wall and forms part of the bedroom entrance space;

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unfortunately a previous idea which included a central roofless lightwell/courtyard and extending the flat with a glazed roof all the the way to the boundary wall was rejected by planning in spite of a precedent from the building line of garages a few metres away.