London firm Studio 54 Architecture have completed a glazed entrance with grey brick steps connecting the ground floor and garden of this London terraced house.
The project involved removing a conservatory from the rear of the property and excavating the site to create wide steps made from long grey bricks.
New doors above this lead from the kitchen to a red cedar balcony while a small flight of steps links the garden to a smaller new entrance on the landing.
Garden storage under this smaller flight of steps is accessed from the wider staircase.
The information below is from Studio 54 Architecture:
Belsize Crescent NW3
Our Clients wanted to reconfigure the rear of their house at the upper and lower ground floor levels to provide a better relationship to the garden.
A recently built conservatory simply added to the sense of dislocation from the outdoors.
Above: before
The conservatory was demolished and a large volume of earth was excavated.
Above: before
We designed a wide and generous access from the lower ground floor up to the garden, linked to the lower ground floor by new glazed doors.
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A new balcony at the Upper Ground floor level links the kitchen to the garden via a shallow line of steps over a garden store.
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A new entrance is provided from the stair landing.
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The pallet of materials we used was deliberately simple: for the walls and paving the Petersen Kolumbia long brick with a horizontal raked joint in the vertical plane and for the balcony and doors: western red cedar.
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Project completed: September 2010
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great little project! love the language between the materials and the hand drawings/sketches! well done.
Nice detailing from the pics. Careful relation between the different materials.
But those stairs looks like they are starving for life, can they become more than small mondain steps? Could this become a space?
very nice indeed…
would like to see the rest of the garden too
Cool little project indeed
I would agree with everyones comments… this is very well done – especially the detail sketches.
Very small project which eventually comes down to one single detail. Which is very nice, thank you.
if that's what the client really desired….
the lower ground staircase seems like proper waste of space, I quite liked the original conservatory based on the pic, the new entrance looks practical though
yeah waste of space. why not stick some planters and seating in there?
Poetry from materials.
good result – garden space turned into steps. why don't more people think of this?