Transforming the Terrace
Oakford Road, London
Threefold Architects designed and delivered the complete re-organisation and extension of this Victorian terraced family house in North London in December 2008.
The brief called for a sequence of family rooms, comprising kitchen, dining, and living areas. Threefold Architects responded with a design that transforms the previously dark and cellularised lower ground floor into a flexible and light filled space.
The scheme opens up large areas of the floor plate, creating a sequence of connected split-level spaces leading to the garden. Natural light floods the main space from both the front and rear of the house as well as from an elegant faceted and frameless glass side return extension.
Bespoke floor to ceiling joinery provides the family with multiple storage solutions. In addition, a colour change light box runs through the living space, a feature that appears to extend, through reflection, into the garden by night. Simple white kitchen units provide a neutral backdrop for the polished in-situ cast concrete worktops and vibrantly-coloured toughened glass splashback.
photographs by Charles Hosea.