The sloping roofline of an outdated extension to a London residence is surrounded by the pale brickwork of its replacement, made by local studio Tsuruta Architects .

Tsuruta Architects refurbished and extended the end-of-terrace family members home in south London, integrating the wall of its formerly mono-pitched rear into a new rectilinear extension.

Named House of Trace, the layout was intended to reveal “recollections of spot and building”.

“Our intent was to hold a sense of memory, even though concurrently allowing the new intervention to have its own identity,” mentioned the architects. “As we uncovered the original building material, we found the history of the property.”

The architects gutted the current extension but retained component of the external wall and developed the new two-storey framework all around it. Contrasting brickwork was utilised to distinguish among the previous and new components of the constructing.

The metal beams used to support the extension were left exposed and big sections of glazing set inside the framework, although the earlier window opening was filled with pale brick.

“The original extension had no distinct historical or architectural worth, and was structurally unsound, but it had a roof profile standard of these located in terrace property back gardens,” they extra.

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“We chose to incorporate this banality in the new encounter of the rear garden – in a way fossilising and persevering its charm to carry some sense of associated memory to these who know it or individuals who see it new.”

The architects reshuffled the interior layout, relocating the bathroom and kitchen from behind the rear elevation to the centre of the home, and then replacing them with a dining space and master bedroom to consider advantage of the backyard views.

A galley kitchen is situated in a passageway among the dining space and lounge, which is set at the front of the residence.

A new timber staircase by the lounge prospects to the master bedroom at the rear of the home, as effectively as to a children’s room and a third bedroom situated above the lounge, dealing with the street.

To reintroduce organic light into the core of the residence, the architects also extra a two-storey lightwell, which is ignored by internal windows in the master and children’s bedrooms.

The upper storey of the effectively is entirely glazed, giving views of the sky and gardens from the bedrooms, and presents as a glazed slice on the outside of the constructing.

Wooden shutters can be closed to conceal the master bedroom from the internal space, whilst a window in the building’s as soon as-exterior wall now kinds an unshaded opening for the children’s area.

“The lightwell serves as a focal stage in the property,” said the staff, “connecting the family members between floors as properly as improving the quality of the spaces — the mother’s scream ‘food is ready’ echoes by means of this passage.”

The bedrooms are lined with a mixture of the old and new brickwork, plaster and timber. The bathrooms feature white tiles with cracked glazing and copper and brass fittings.

The white soffit of the new staircase measures across the ceiling of one particular bathroom.

“The structures of the new envelope have been exposed internally wherever virtually achievable, so that these surfaces will register the future stories of the residence,” said the architects.

“Hand marks of workmen trace the approach of the operate and are now recorded on the internal faces of the building’s material.”

Components of the extension had been 3-dimensionally modelled and prefabricated to minimize the cost of on-website building and permit for a quicker constructing time.

Bespoke wooden furnishings like the dining table and chairs, beds and staircase had been cut making use of a CNC router – a laptop-controlled cutting machine – and flat-packed prior to currently being transported to the web site.

Beds and benches feature bases with a concertina-formation that can be used as storage nooks, whilst notches on the chairs and table reveal exactly where the pieces have been slotted collectively.

The furniture sports the identifying codes from this cutting and reassembly method. “The record of this CNC flatpack process can be traced to the numbering program visible on the faces of each piece,” explained the studio.

Photography is by Tim Crocker, Marie-Cecile Embleton and Tsuruta Architects.

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