Goldstein Heather has actually skilfully revamped a narrow, end-of-terrace Victorian home in Stamford Brook, developing a light-filled, interconnected family home, created to support multigenerational living. Goldstein Heather has finished West London House in Stamford Brook, London, reconfiguring and extending a Victorian end-of-terrace home through a considerable four-storey lateral addition. Inhabiting the website of a previous Territorial Army building, the task transforms a previously narrow and fragmented home into a generous, light-filled home designed to support multigenerational living. The initial house was specified by a tight floorplate and
a disjointed internal arrangement that restricted both daytime and social interaction. Rooms were isolated, and the dining area sat deep within the plan with little connection to the garden. The unanticipated availability of the neighbouring website presented an opportunity for the clients and their designer to basically rethink your home, expanding its footprint and reorganising its spatial reasoning. Goldstein Heather approached the job with a concentrate on connection, light and long-term adaptability. Taking advantage of an east– west orientation and views towards a green square, the extension is structured around a double-height volume that draws daylight deep into the plan. This vertical space forms the social heart of your home, aesthetically linking the kitchen area and dining areas at ground level with a lounge above. Openings, skylights and thoroughly framed views develop a series of connections in between interior spaces and the surrounding landscape. The architectural language of the extension is specified by a series of toned forms and meaningful geometries. Curved arches are utilized throughout, shaping light and strengthening a sense of permanence, while brickwork is handled with a clarity and accuracy that identifies the brand-new addition from the original material without taking on it.< img width="1700"height="1275 "alt="Structures. "src="https://atlive-wp.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/Goldstein-Heather-West-London-House-Photography-by-James-Retief-17.jpg"/ > Together, the existing home and extension offer approximately 500 square metres of accommodation, with the new 244-square-metre addition operating practically as a 2nd dwelling while staying totally incorporated throughout all levels. On the ground floor, an expansive cooking area, dining and living area opens onto the garden, forming the main gathering location for the family. The cooking area, established in cooperation with Sebastian Cox, combines a long marble island with green veining, bespoke ash joinery and textured cabinets that echoes the articulation of the upper storeys. 
The upper levels are arranged to stabilize shared and personal areas. A generous landing on the first floor functions as a casual lounge, with an internal balcony neglecting the double-height area listed below. 3 children’s bedrooms occupy the third floor, spanning both the initial home and the extension, permitting both connection and separation as needed. The leading flooring is provided over to a primary bedroom suite with access to a personal terrace. A curving wood staircase goes through your house, with broadening landings and increasing levels of daytime strengthening the sense of progression through the structure.
Externally, the initial Victorian façade has been carefully brought back, with paint eliminated, brickwork repointed and the parapet fixed. The extension adopts a lighter yellow brick with two-toned render, developing a distinct yet complementary identity. On the upper levels, an accordion-like façade regulates the massing and introduces rhythm to the street, allowing the extra volume to sit comfortably within its context. Environmental efficiency is attended to through an extremely insulated envelope and the combination of photovoltaic panels, allowing your house to approach carbon neutrality during summer season.
“The West London House crystalises the style values of our studio,” commented Giles Heather, Director at Goldstein Heather. “With like-minded clients and an excellent professional we have actually had the ability to understand a home that is at as soon as entirely of it’s time and yet perennial. The geometrical forms that articulate the outside continue through to the interior, where domestic, intimate spaces effortlessly get in touch with more extensive common areas, filled with light from both east and west. It’s likewise now a more useful house, more functional and more connected. We are pleased that we have achieved an unified vision, one shared by everybody involved in the procedure.”
Credits
Architect
Goldstein Heather
Structure
Float Structures
M&E
IC&T
QS
Metrum Consulting
Main specialist
IC&T
Customer
Rowan and Angelina Bamford
Recovered London brick
London Brick Co
Lime render
Lime Green
Hempcrete obstructs
Hempblock
Interior paint
Bauwerk Colour
Joinery, kitchen
Sebastian Cox