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Trafalgar House visualisations
New renders of Trafalgar House have been uploaded showcasing the new two-storey addition to a freestanding terrace house in its heritage conservation area.
Aside from amply meeting client and council objectives, the project is driven by overarching conservation and sustainability values. The original front form retains local cultural heritage in the public domain and responsibly preserves its embodied energy. The new rear addition augments the low environmental footprint of the project, achieves a thermal comfort level of 7-stars, embeds low carbon materials, and integrates on-site renewable energy production and storage.
The new ground floor interior is carefully composed within its singular volume, with new arched openings through an existing internal wall echoing the original front façade openings and allowing the existing front half to amply connect to the new rear spaces – while a carved-out void enables daylight access from the first floor above.
Trafalgar House interior compositions
The ground floor spaces within the new rear addition are arranged within a 4m tall ‘grand room’, connecting to a new landscaped courtyard and sky views beyond - with a powder room, reading alcove, and a laundry room doubling as a second side entry carefully organised to one side along its length. Of importance to the client brief, new arched openings through an existing internal wall enable the original front half to markedly link to the new ground floor rear spaces while echoing the arched openings of the front façade.
With the first floor, a series of crafted and controlled spaces offer varying spatial experiences in counterpoint to their otherwise modest dimensions. A pop-up rear roof plane over the bedroom echoes the original roof pitch and enables northern light access and sky views, an office and main bathroom each borrow from an adjacent void to expand outlooks, and an ensuite projects outward from the footprint to connect to the street and canopy views - with a linear array of roof lights over a compact hall responding to a challenged northern orientation along the side boundary.
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Greenwich House image by Matthew Fonda / Method Visualisation