House in Hampstead

This project consisted of a basement excavation under the existing building footprint together with full alteration and general refurbishment to a semi-detached, Hampstead house.
 
The new basement space accommodates a home-gym with lightwell. An incorporated green wall visible from the gym provides a pleasant outlook, improves air quality and brings a freshness to this part of the house. As a consequence of the basement extension and structural alterations, the basement level stair hall became spacious and open to the kitchen and dining
room. A stunning Crittall screen and doorset complement the minimalist kitchen and dining room, optimise levels of interior light and provide both open and closed flexibility. The large opening to the garden now offers additional outdoor living.
 
We paid respect to the original hallway and stairs, while transforming and adapting it to a minimalist, modern style space. Most of the walls throughout the property were left plain in order to display the clients’ varied art collection.
 
The master bedroom, dressing room and master bathroom were designed to form a liner sequence of space: thus, from the master bedroom, the attention is drawn through to the dressing room, then to some seating space with washbasins, then onto the bathing, showering and ablutions area.  The master bathroom is divided into dry and wet areas by a Crittall screen and adopts a monochrome theme to add both contrast and depth to the space.
 
Finishing materials were selected from clients’ preferences, and were integrated with our designs to propose and maintain a thoughtful, sensitive, pared down balance of simplicity.

Photograph by Luca Piffaretti