Throughout our nineteen years of practice we have worked on hundreds of residential schemes of all types and size. Over the next few days we will pick out several that demonstrate our design approach and in particular the use of glass in transforming a properties into light filled contemporary homes.
Transform your home with Shape Architecture: The Royal Institute of British Architects book ‘House goals: Work with Architects; transform your home’ has been published and is now on sale. Shape Architecture’s work at Rugby Road in Brighton is one of the featured projects.
https://www.shapearchitecture.co.uk/riba-publication/
This project in Rugby Road in Brighton is of particular interest as the brief called for a side extension and the opening up of a ‘messy’ interior with improved connection to the garden, in order to create a light, bright and contemporary kitchen/dining space. This is a quite typical brief and one that shares much with many peoples existing homes. The result has exceeded expectations.
Here the side extension features a full height and wide glazed window which merges into a rooflight with a frameless glass to glass connection. The rooflight is set in a Sedum roof where the contrast between sedum roof and the rooflight always works well. A Sedum roof is easily installed and helps integrate the extension into the garden setting. The Sedum roof also absorbs around 70 per cent of rainwater that falls upon it and acts as a valuable ecological resource for birdlife.
Should you wish to discuss a similar project please do not hesitate to contact us at Shape Architecture.
