Sustainable extension to a Victorian villa.

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Architects: Scenario Architecture

Location: Evering Rd, London E5, United Kingdom

Architect In Charge: Fanis Anastasiadis

Area: 33.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Matt Clayton

Structural Engineer: Solid Geometry

Cdm Coordinator: Jackson Cole

Party Wall: Mike Smith from Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors 

Contractor: Spinel Contractors

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Sustainable extension to a Victorian villa.Our clients have been living in their ground floor flat for several years, before deciding to renovate it. The existing flat had a very old glass conservatory, which was freezing cold in winter and overheated in summer. It was blocking the light to the inner sitting room and the whole space was laid out in a very dysfunctional way. 
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Ground Floor Plan After

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The flat had enormous potential being a conversion of a large Victorian villa it had grand dimensions and a very wide back façade. Initially the brief felt a contradictory. On one end our clients were after a modern open extension, which brings plenty of natural light to the living room, but at the same time, they wanted to respect the original proportions and...