Extension of a town house
Floor area: 90m² existing + 47m² Extension
Design phase: 5 months
Construction phase: 6 months.
The owners of this town house wished to make use of the garage bay to add extra living space to their home.
The central idea behind this architectural project was to graft a new slice of house onto the existing one. This addition allowed the requalification of a home that had genuine qualities but also significant shortcomings: an oversized garage and undersized living areas.
The concept for this town house extension was to adopt a resolutely contemporary language, deliberately contrasting with the sober, traditional architecture of the existing building — discreet on the street side, yet allowing a bold transformation of the garden facade.
The original layout of the house was well suited to the conversion of this free bay across ground and first floors above the garage, as the existing vertical circulation was already adjacent to the garage bay. Converting the original small bedroom 1 — too small to function as a bedroom in any case — into a TV room and landing gave way to a proper circulation bay on the upper floor, connecting the 2 retained bedrooms with the new extension and raised section.
The main technical constraint for the spatial organisation was the creation of openings through load-bearing walls on the ground floor to allow a smooth transition between the existing living spaces and the new ones laid out on the garden level: the kitchen and dining room.
