Primrose Hill
A residential extension precedent by Manea Kella showing how a contemporary glazed volume with matching masonry integrates cleanly with a traditional brick house.
- What we like about this project
- The slender brick piers framing the glass echo the heavy mass of the original Victorian-style chimneys and gables above.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- painted-steel
- concrete-paving
- timber
Visual identifiers
- glazed-extension
- red-brick
- floor-to-ceiling-glass
- garden-terrace
Style tags
- contemporary-traditional
- contextual
- residential
Visual tags
- residential-extension
- contemporary-addition
- brick-facade
- indoor-outdoor-living
- glazed-pavilion
- Geometry
- A contemporary single-story glazed box with solid brick piers projects symmetrically from the traditional gabled rear facade.
- Facade system
- Post-and-beam floor-to-ceiling glazing paired with matching load-bearing brick piers and coping.
- Structural guess
- Steel portal frame supporting the glazed extension with concealed structural columns.
- Spatial scale
- Residential scale; two-to-three-story main house with a lower single-story contemporary pavilion.
- Lighting
- Bright, even daylight illuminating the rear elevation with soft shadows cast by surrounding mature trees.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, sunlit suburban tranquility balancing historical mass with modern transparency.
- Environmental context
- Suburban garden setting with mature lawn, boundary hedges, and flanking neighboring residential roofs.
- Spatial experience
- The extension steps out onto a terraced lawn, establishing a transparent threshold between the interior living spaces and the garden.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical composition centered around the new glazed pavilion, contrasting with the irregular gables above.
- Style reading
- Contemporary traditional-fusion residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family residential rear living extension
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, painted-steel, concrete-paving, timber
- Visual identifiers
- glazed-extension, red-brick, floor-to-ceiling-glass, garden-terrace
- Style tags
- contemporary-traditional, contextual, residential
- Visual tags
- residential-extension, contemporary-addition, brick-facade, indoor-outdoor-living, glazed-pavilion
- Geometry
- A contemporary single-story glazed box with solid brick piers projects symmetrically from the traditional gabled rear facade.
- Facade system
- Post-and-beam floor-to-ceiling glazing paired with matching load-bearing brick piers and coping.
- Structural guess
- Steel portal frame supporting the glazed extension with concealed structural columns.
- Spatial scale
- Residential scale; two-to-three-story main house with a lower single-story contemporary pavilion.
- Lighting
- Bright, even daylight illuminating the rear elevation with soft shadows cast by surrounding mature trees.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, sunlit suburban tranquility balancing historical mass with modern transparency.
- Environmental context
- Suburban garden setting with mature lawn, boundary hedges, and flanking neighboring residential roofs.
- Spatial experience
- The extension steps out onto a terraced lawn, establishing a transparent threshold between the interior living spaces and the garden.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical composition centered around the new glazed pavilion, contrasting with the irregular gables above.
- Style reading
- Contemporary traditional-fusion residential architecture
- Program
- Single-family residential rear living extension
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture