Culverden Road House, Balham South London
Culverden Road House, Balham Building Extension, South London Real Estate, English Architecture Images
Culverden Road House in Balham
6 Jun 2022
Design: Ciarcelluti Mathers Architecture Ltd
Location: Culverden Road, Balham, Borough of Wandsworth, South London, England, UK
Photos: French + Tye
Culverden Road House, London
The cantilevered garden room at Culverden Road House replaces an outdated, inefficient conservatory that had occupied the prime position at the rear of a detached property in Balham. A Victorian house within the Culverden Road Conservation area, the rear garden has views and direct access to Tooting Bec Common.
The clients were opposed to adding a rational glass box and sought a unique solution to improve daylight, the relationship with the garden, and the internal connections between rooms.
The relationship between the original building and the context was carefully considered. To establish a strong relationship to nature, we decided to cantilever the garden room, projecting it out and over the garden. The form is a unique response to the existing site, resulting from structural alignments with the original building and is a contemporary reinterpretation of angled lines of the original conservatory. Enlarged internal structural openings connect the kitchen and the hallway with the garden, improving the flow and making the house’s interior brighter and more spacious. To eliminate a one-meter level difference within the first-floor bedroom suite, th...
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