VATRAA
2024
A residential rear extension featuring red-pigmented render and generous glazing that steps down into a terraced garden landscape.
- What we like about this project
- The intense terracotta hue of the lower extension boldly contrasts with the traditional London stock brick of the host building.
Materials
- pigmented-render
- glass
- timber
- concrete
- brick
Visual identifiers
- red-render-extension
- terraced-garden
- full-height-glazing
- concrete-planters
Style tags
- contemporary
- residential
- contextual
Visual tags
- residential-extension
- garden-integration
- terraced-landscape
- contemporary-rear
- Geometry
- Rectangular single-story rear extension with terracotta-colored finish framing large sliding doors, stepping onto tiered concrete landscape planters.
- Facade system
- Pigmented render over framed extension with timber-framed sliding glass doors.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing or steel-framed extension with concrete retaining garden steps.
- Spatial scale
- Domestic garden and single-story rear extension scale.
- Lighting
- Soft overcast daylight casting gentle shadows across the tiered garden steps and rear facade.
- Atmosphere
- Warm and grounded, blending earthy red tones with lush greenery and autumn leaves.
- Environmental context
- Urban residential back garden framed by mature autumn foliage and neighboring brick terrace houses.
- Spatial experience
- The extension ties the interior living space directly to the multi-level garden via wide steps and large glazed openings.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal garden tiers mirror the stacked windows of the original Victorian brick facade above.
- Style reading
- Contemporary residential extension with contextual masonry backdrop
- Program
- Residential rear living extension and garden
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- pigmented-render, glass, timber, concrete, brick
- Visual identifiers
- red-render-extension, terraced-garden, full-height-glazing, concrete-planters
- Style tags
- contemporary, residential, contextual
- Visual tags
- residential-extension, garden-integration, terraced-landscape, contemporary-rear
- Geometry
- Rectangular single-story rear extension with terracotta-colored finish framing large sliding doors, stepping onto tiered concrete landscape planters.
- Facade system
- Pigmented render over framed extension with timber-framed sliding glass doors.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing or steel-framed extension with concrete retaining garden steps.
- Spatial scale
- Domestic garden and single-story rear extension scale.
- Lighting
- Soft overcast daylight casting gentle shadows across the tiered garden steps and rear facade.
- Atmosphere
- Warm and grounded, blending earthy red tones with lush greenery and autumn leaves.
- Environmental context
- Urban residential back garden framed by mature autumn foliage and neighboring brick terrace houses.
- Spatial experience
- The extension ties the interior living space directly to the multi-level garden via wide steps and large glazed openings.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal garden tiers mirror the stacked windows of the original Victorian brick facade above.
- Style reading
- Contemporary residential extension with contextual masonry backdrop
- Program
- Residential rear living extension and garden
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture