Architecture studio Wright & Wright has completed a renovation and extension of the 18th-century Museum of the Home in London, UK.
The Museum of the Home, formerly known as the Geffrye Museum, is housed within Grade-1 listed almshouses built in Hackney, east London, in 1714.
They were transformed into a museum in 1914 after being bought by the city council.
Wright & Wright has renovated the Museum of the Home. Photo is by Jayne Lloyd
Wright & Wright was asked to create more public and exhibition spaces for the museum, while also reversing detrimental alterations made to it in the 20th century.
The studio achieved this by opening up the museum's lower ground level, reinstating its first floor and adding two garden pavilions.
The overhaul involved adding more entrances "The buildings are beautiful but had been destabilised by the original alterations, when the staircases, internal partitions and first floors were taken out, with openings cut through party walls on the lower ground floor in just the wrong place," explained the studio's partner Clare Wright.
"The original alterations meant that only one of the three floors was being fully used," she told Dezeen.
The lower ground floor was opened up for exhibits
The biggest change that Wright & Wright made to the museum was the opening up of the lower ground floor, which involved excavating the site by one metre.
As well as providing public access to this space for the first time in the buildi...