Mews Music Room
An extension to a modern building takes a very different approach to an extension to a historic one. Particularly when that modern building is a house you designed and received considerable critical acclaim for a few years earlier.
In most of our projects we have sought to be deliberately different in our approach to an extension - allowing any additions to contrast but compliment the host building. In the case of this Music Room at our Essex Mews project we worked very hard to ensure that the extension looked as if it had always been there.
Exposed brickwork is used in the main building to connect the different spaces and so we choose to expose two of the walls in the extension in the same way to compliment it.
Another feature of the main houses was the use of flat topped chimneys and so a smaller matching chimney has been incorporated - this time housing a pizza oven / barbecue.
The main difference internally from the main house is an exposed and staggered asymmetric pitched roof structure - deliberately designed to help maximise natural light into the extension and furthermore the kitchen in the main house as well as providing some additional volume to the space.
The juxtaposed pitches of the roof planes allows for a long thin piece of glazing to the entire length of the room and the angles allow the light to constantly change throughout the day almost providing a sundial effect in the space on the internal walls whilst the surrounding trees provide a similarly beautiful effect on the outside brickwork with leaf shadows moving around the building.
PROPOSED PLAN
Proposed Elevation and section
PROPOSED rear elevation
