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Hammersmith and Fulham
£100,000 to £249,999
Alteration to existing property, Within a Conservation Area
This project is the result of a conversion of two flats to a single-family dwelling house located in West London. The approach was to make the constricted spaces of the classic Victorian London building more spacious in a contemporary way. All wall junctions were incongruent with each other with crooked walls caused by the gradient of the crescent of where the building is located. In order to make everything homogeneous we generated an ellipse in the main area dictated by the curvature of the bay window which determined a single thread in walnut that guides the flow from room to room in a more fluent way. Precast concrete staircase has been hidden by the walnut wall cladding thus generating useful storage underneath it. Concealed doors discretely hide rooms and functional spaces, leaving the formal integrity intact. A process totally tailored to the client and the potential of the area, made up of only three ingredients: clay plaster, walnut cladding and polished concrete.