Redesdale Street Project Review
Following our blog yesterday exploring our project in Rugby Road Brighton, today we review a project in Kensington and Chelsea in Redesdale Street. This project explores all the same issues but on a larger scale given that it incorporates a basement extension. Following its completion we went on to carry out similar works to the house next door.
This project in Redesdale Street, Chelsea sees the addition of a basement extension and lower ground floor extension and transformation alongside a redesign of the garden
Shape Architecture was commissioned through Client recommendation following our work on a number of basement projects in West London. We now have worked on over 30 basement projects throughout London and this project in Redesdale street remains one of our favourites through its combination of elegance and creative design.
The lower ground floor has been made a simple and elegant space. Firstly a side return extension has been added to form a simple rectangular floor plan. The space is then divided into three sections for living, kitchen and dining. The division is aided with the inclusion of a large feature kitchen island. The kitchen island is the same length as the stairs down to the basement and the kitchen wall units, thereby forming a distinct central kitchen zone, with dining to the garden side and living to the street side.
The architecture of the space also helps to define the dining area with a large roof light above the dining table, formed in the roof to the extension. The result is a very elegant contemporary light filled space. One that also connects well with the outside and also with the basement extension which is defined by a full height glass screen to reflect light and add to the sense of zones and openness.
The brief included the desire to employ energy saving measures throughout the house. Shape Architecture has over fifteen years of experience of designing and building sustainable architecture. We are therefore able to offer strategic and straightforward advice on sustainable measures. In this instance the project includes high levels of natural daylight through well insulated windows and rooflights. In addition thermal linings have been added to existing solid brickwork walls to improve their thermal performance. Throughout the house energy efficient lights have been specified.
