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House of Trace, London
Home Extension and Refurbishment in England ? design by Tsuruta Architects
10 Jan 2017
House of Trace in London
Design: Tsuruta Architects
Location: London, South East England, UK
House of Trace, London
A home extension and refurbishment in London intended to reveal memories of place and construction.
Photos © Tim Crocker

On the design process Tsuruta Architects rediscovered how varied materials are used for this small project and tried to bring them to life instead of concealing. At construction, the architects uncovered the original building fabric and discovered the history of this ordinary house.
The demolition of the original extension and its replacement, called for an intervention that could be a part of the original main building, without replicating classical vocabulary or gesture. The intent was to keep a sense of everyday memory, while simultaneously allowing the new intervention to have its own identity.

The original brick extension on this London terraced house had no distinct historical or architectural value, and was structurally unsound, but it had a sloped roof profile typical of those found in terraced house back gardens in the UK.

Tsuruta Architects chose to incorporate the banality of the sloped roof profile into the new face of the rear garden ? in a way preserving its charm to carry some sense of associated memory to those who know it ...