LEVELS

An existing house with substantial level changes left the kitchen isolated, and a beautiful mature garden cut off even further below. To negotiate a connection, it was chosen to create new space decending across several levels, opening up to the garden and activating a large basement condition.

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A reconfigured kitchen retains its previous level, overlooking a lower dining space introduced at the garden level, such that it benefits from increased room height, befitting the ceremony of dining, below a brass lined roof light. The stepped level

A reconfigured kitchen retains its previous level, overlooking a lower dining space introduced at the garden level, such that it benefits from increased room height, befitting the ceremony of dining, below a brass lined roof light. The stepped level change becomes a dining bench, continuing externally for warm evenings.

The kitchen is given a large and uninterrupted glazed wall to the garden, with an external level change below forming a bench in the west evening sunlight. An oversized in-situ lintel shelters both the bench and protects internal space from overheat

The kitchen is given a large and uninterrupted glazed wall to the garden, with an external level change below forming a bench in the west evening sunlight. An oversized in-situ lintel shelters both the bench and protects internal space from overheating.

The dining space runs directly out to the garden at one end and a den or playroom in the newly opened basement just a few steps down at the other.

The dining space runs directly out to the garden at one end and a den or playroom in the newly opened basement just a few steps down at the other.

Design Development Options

Design Development Options

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The levels are accentuated in datums of changing materiality pivoting around an oversized column.

The levels are accentuated in datums of changing materiality pivoting around an oversized column.

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