About this home:

The site was extremely long and thin - 2.7m at its thinnest - and we were situated off a busy red route - so any form of road closure was prohibited. We made this our design driver, forming a 'hard' street frontage of brick sat on a concrete and steel plinth, contrasting with a 'soft' timber interior running to the private yard at the back. This organised spaces from the communal to the busy street with the private to the quieter rear, creating blocks of different functions in sequence - much like the hull of a ship. The result presented two distinct facades that stitched the house into the local terrace, the front appearing as two storeys whilst the rear terraced out to create three.

Planning Insights:

11 months at planning

We withdrew our initial application in October 2016 to re-design it, submitting a pre-app in May 2017, and then gaining a second full application in September 2017.