Carden Road - Jas Bhalla Works
A residential rear extension precedent that pairs historic weathered brick with a lighter contemporary brick volume and soft-toned joinery.
- What we like about this project
- The pale tone of the new lower brickwork intentionally contrasts yet harmonizes with the darker, soot-stained historic brick above.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- painted-wood
- slate
Visual identifiers
- pale-brick-extension
- sage-green-frames
- historic-brick-facade
- garden-connection
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- residential
- vernacular
Visual tags
- residential
- extension
- renovation
- brickwork
- garden-facade
- Geometry
- Multi-story traditional brick gable wall steps down into a single-story orthogonal rear extension with large flush openings.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing weathered brickwork on upper levels; pale facing brickwork with large timber or metal-framed glazed doors below.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry walls with concealed steel lintels over the new garden openings.
- Spatial scale
- Domestic multi-story scale with a human-height single-story extension.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylighting yielding even illumination across the brickwork and gardens without harsh shadows.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, established residential atmosphere blending old weathered masonry with clean modern brickwork.
- Environmental context
- Urban residential backyard flanked by neighboring pitched and mansard rooflines.
- Spatial experience
- The extension projects directly into a private garden, grounding the historic upper masonry with a low, welcoming garden-facing volume.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical window placement on the historic brick wall sits above the balanced, rectilinear openings of the new ground-floor extension.
- Style reading
- Contemporary residential vernacular addition
- Program
- Residential single-family house extension
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, painted-wood, slate
- Visual identifiers
- pale-brick-extension, sage-green-frames, historic-brick-facade, garden-connection
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, residential, vernacular
- Visual tags
- residential, extension, renovation, brickwork, garden-facade
- Geometry
- Multi-story traditional brick gable wall steps down into a single-story orthogonal rear extension with large flush openings.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing weathered brickwork on upper levels; pale facing brickwork with large timber or metal-framed glazed doors below.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing masonry walls with concealed steel lintels over the new garden openings.
- Spatial scale
- Domestic multi-story scale with a human-height single-story extension.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylighting yielding even illumination across the brickwork and gardens without harsh shadows.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, established residential atmosphere blending old weathered masonry with clean modern brickwork.
- Environmental context
- Urban residential backyard flanked by neighboring pitched and mansard rooflines.
- Spatial experience
- The extension projects directly into a private garden, grounding the historic upper masonry with a low, welcoming garden-facing volume.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical window placement on the historic brick wall sits above the balanced, rectilinear openings of the new ground-floor extension.
- Style reading
- Contemporary residential vernacular addition
- Program
- Residential single-family house extension
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture