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Murrayfield House Extension in Edinburgh
21 Nov 2021
Design: Konishi Gaffney Architects
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland

Murrayfield House Extension
The Murrayfield Extension project was for the alteration and enlargement of a Victorian terraced house in Edinburgh.

The brief for the project was to improve the connection between the house and it?s mature garden; West facing and long and thin with some beautiful plants. The main challenge was the difference in height between the house and garden levels, almost 1.4m, and blocked by an unsightly conservatory and long thin utility outshoot. These served only to darken the interior and reduce the visual connection to the garden.
The existing extensions were removed with a new full width extension that was sunken down by three steps to bridge the levels between the kitchen and garden; these steps become informal seating inside. Externally a raised terrace was built to make level access from inside to outside. Three further steps to the garden meant we could avoid the need for a visually intrusive handrail. A planter formed the edge to this new deck.

Fixed, frameless glass was used with a large sliding, oak door to the outside. A steel framed overhang was employed externally to allow the doors to be opened even in the rain and shelter the larch cladding. This was treated with a silicone-based wood treatment to ensure even ...