Breomhill Road House / Urban Projects Bureau

Text description provided by the architects. This project converted a Victorian terrace house in East London into a four-story family home that reflects the South Asian legacy of customers. In its center there is a three -story gallery inspired by Islamic court houses and organizes the kitchen, the living room and study. The kitchen acts as a courtyard and connects living rooms via stairs and a bridge, while large landscape levels lead to a new family room in the basement. The design emphasizes details, color and texture for a coherent interior with a view that combine the front and rear gardens and integrate elements outdoors, including a winter garden, to improve the flow of the house.

The improvement of well-being and liability within the rooms of this traditional terrace house was of central importance for a large family with a variety of life and accessible requirements. This was achieved by opening rooms, creating large, unimpeded soil levels that enabled clear visual connections between rooms and levels and combine rooms with specially developed slow stairs and a bridge. The project also includes the construction of a new treatment room in the rear garden.

Inspired by the traditional Islamic Hofhaus, the new kitchen is designed as a courtyard in the center of the house and connected with new stairs and a bridge with different living rooms, which give a home of community and intimacy. From the kitchen island you can see in all other living rooms and in the front and rear gardens. Large landscape levels lead from the kitchen to a new family room in the basement in which the interaction between the family promotes.

Connections with external landscape rooms, plants and natural life are another important feature of the design and natural ventilation of good quality. The depth of the house creates the prospects that combine the newly created front and rear gardens and let light and air guide them through the rooms and between the levels by natural cross ventilation. The ventilation of the natural stacks is activated from the basement to the roof through the new staircase and a step section.

An inner winter garden in the dining room creates a retirement and a transition between the interior and outside, garden and house. A tone plaster wall delivers the winter garden and offers a natural, breathable wall on a biological basis, which changes in response to plants, temperature and humidity. The rear extension is lined with a green roof.