Refurbishment & Space Planning
Streatham - Atelierdb Architects
An open-plan residential kitchen precedent featuring a central island and wide glazed openings that visually connect indoor cooking space to the rear garden.
- What we like about this project
- Low-profile pendant lights provide focused task illumination directly above the white quartz island.
Materials
- quartz
- wood-flooring
- painted-metal
- glass
Visual identifiers
- kitchen-island
- pendant-lighting
- sliding-glass-doors
- open-plan
Style tags
- contemporary
- residential
- minimal
Visual tags
- residential
- kitchen
- indoor-outdoor
- natural-light
- open-concept
- Geometry
- Open-plan kitchen with central island aligning with rear sliding glass panels and adjacent side door opening to outdoor brick courtyard.
- Facade system
- Large glazed sliding doors and framed side doors set in standard residential wall construction.
- Structural guess
- Concealed steel beam over wide opening allowing corner glass continuity.
- Spatial scale
- Domestic single-story kitchen-dining living space at comfortable human residential scale.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight entering from rear and side glazing, supplemented by three black pendant lights over the kitchen island.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, airy, and domestic with a strong connection to natural greenery outside.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential setting with rear garden, patio table, and brick boundary walls visible through windows.
- Spatial experience
- The interior flows seamlessly outward through corner-spanning glazed openings, extending visual depth into the rear garden.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal counter levels contrast with the vertical rhythm of window frames and three suspended pendant fixtures.
- Style reading
- Contemporary domestic interior
- Program
- Residential kitchen and dining extension
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- quartz, wood-flooring, painted-metal, glass
- Visual identifiers
- kitchen-island, pendant-lighting, sliding-glass-doors, open-plan
- Style tags
- contemporary, residential, minimal
- Visual tags
- residential, kitchen, indoor-outdoor, natural-light, open-concept
- Geometry
- Open-plan kitchen with central island aligning with rear sliding glass panels and adjacent side door opening to outdoor brick courtyard.
- Facade system
- Large glazed sliding doors and framed side doors set in standard residential wall construction.
- Structural guess
- Concealed steel beam over wide opening allowing corner glass continuity.
- Spatial scale
- Domestic single-story kitchen-dining living space at comfortable human residential scale.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight entering from rear and side glazing, supplemented by three black pendant lights over the kitchen island.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, airy, and domestic with a strong connection to natural greenery outside.
- Environmental context
- Suburban residential setting with rear garden, patio table, and brick boundary walls visible through windows.
- Spatial experience
- The interior flows seamlessly outward through corner-spanning glazed openings, extending visual depth into the rear garden.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal counter levels contrast with the vertical rhythm of window frames and three suspended pendant fixtures.
- Style reading
- Contemporary domestic interior
- Program
- Residential kitchen and dining extension
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior