Stone Tiers

Client: Private
Value: £2.5million
Time: Ongoing
Status: Planning
Location: Dulwich, London

Burgess Architects have designed a collection of modern extensions to accommodate a new kitchen dining space, gym and swimming pool for our client at this substantial Victorian house on the edge of a conservation area in South London.

The challenge of this project is to design an extension large enough to accommodate the swimming pool but with its perceived massing sympathetic to its historic context.  Navigating all the beautiful trees in the rear garden, the extension is skilfully positioned and semi-sunken, forming part of the landscape whilst creating a terrace for the kitchen dining extension above.

The kitchen dining extension reconnects the main house with the garden. Its facade is carefully crafted with local stone, its proportion echoing the grand scale of the existing house.

Our client has high environmental aspirations and a ground source heat pump, mechanical ventilation with heat recovery and two extensive photovoltaic arrays have been integrated into the design right from the outset of the project. Whilst below-ground construction necessitates carbon-intensive concrete, the basement box is highly insulated and the full thermal mass is activated to make the demanding steady state achievable with a minimum of energy required.

Kelmore

Client: Private
Value: £250,000
Time: Ongoing
Status: Construction
Location: East Dulwich, London

Our rear extension at Kelmore Grove in The Gardens conservation area in East Dulwich creates a new open plan kitchen, living and dining space flooded with light and all but ‘falling out of’ the bands of elegant slim windows set into the timber frame.