Woodland Rise

for Susan Carter and Mark Cambell
North London
£160k Construction Budget
completed Aug 04

London's housing stock is running out of space to extend into its lofts. The only way left is to go down. Here at this house in North London, we have taken advantage of the natural slope of the site to carve out a new lower space. The extension at ground floor level is to the same footprint as the basement, but cantilevers from the line of the original back wall. Thus the kitchen visually hovers above the basement room, allowing a continous line of glass around the perimeter of the lower room.

Published in Living Etc September 2006 & Terence Conran: How to Live in Small Spaces 2006