O'Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects has rearranged the ground floor of a Victorian terraced house in north London and introduced a material palette to the extended space that complements the original brick walls.

The practice headed by architects Jody O'Sullivan and Amalia Skoufoglou was asked to develop a proposal for reorganising the ground-floor of the house in Highbury to improve the living spaces for a family with two children.
A series of cramped rooms and a neglected yard at the rear of the building were reconfigured to create an open-plan room lined with glazing that creates a stronger connection with the garden.
The new room accommodates several functions and takes on a role as the house's main communal space, which can extend out onto a sunken patio by retracting a large sliding door incorporated into the glazed surface.
"The clients wanted to create a larger space for family use at the back of the house because that's where they spend most of their time," O'Sullivan told Dezeen.
"That's why we wanted to get three main uses in there, so there is the kitchen, dining table and a seating area where the kids sit when they come home from school, or the mum can hang out with her friends."

The architects removed the unnecessary internal walls and extended the building 1.5 metres from the existing rear facade to provide more space around the new dining area.
Pushing the end wall back towards the garden also allowed a single-leaf door at one side to be ...