House + House London, Home by Robert Hirschfield Architects, Residential Property Photos
House + House North West London
27 September 2021
Design: Robert Hirschfield Architects
Location: North West London, England, UK

Photos by Leigh Simpson
House + House North London Property
RHA has completed the radical transformation of a home in a North-West London conservation area. In a city where land is scarce and house prices are rising ?House + House? offered a solution for densifying low-rise semi-detached residential plots that could no longer be extended individually. By amalgamating two houses into one, these combined dwellings offered the house owners and their family additional living space without the need to relocate from their existing home.
The resulting four-bedroom house retains the existing structural shell of the two properties without impacting the external appearance of the buildings or the inter-relationship of particular aesthetic architectural features in this sensitive conservation area.

Having achieved the necessary planning consents, RHA then designed the internal arrangements to respond to the clients? central concern of enabling the family to enjoy a sense of ?togetherness? whilst doing different things. The design brief also sought to create a contemporary, yet functional family home that embraced volume, depth and light as the core design principles. It was a pleasure working with our clients, who were open to design innovation and enjoyed being chal...