Unagru Architecture Urbanism

House for a family of sailors. The brief: an enclosed kitchen, more storage and service area at ground floor, a more direct relationship with the garden. Our proposal reflects the clients needs and focuses on compression and expansion of space.

The original rear ground floor of this large semi-detached Edwardian house in Bromley was extremely fragmented, resulting in small, dark spaces and little flexibility. Our proposal was to unite the three-and-a-half rooms forming the rear ground floor into one large space. Rather than simply knocking down walls and creating a single space, we have worked with clients on selecting the features worth preserving, with the aim of increasing rather than reducing the richness of the resulting space.

This project is an experiment on a shift of scale: from a house composed of floors to a narrative whole. Rather than stacking uses on separate levels, we have imagined a continuous flow throughout the house. The circulation areas merge into one another and the living spaces through small double-height spaces.