Westbourne Villas
Brighton
Private Residential | Extension
Side and rear extension, Brighton
This is project follows on from our work at Rugby Road in Brighton, published by the RIBA in their book ‘Transforming homes, work with an Architect’. The brief asked for an extension that transformed our Clients house. The design adds valuable floor space via the addition of a wrap around extension.. The use of glass and the daylight and views this provides has been key to the design. A vertical glass panel runs into a rooflight with a frameless glass detail. A further rooflight set in a green sedum roof will help flood the interior with light. In the design of this project we have worked closely with the glazing company Maxlight with whom we have worked on a number of other projects where high quality glazing and elegant detailing is important.
Summary
Brighton Wrap-around Extension
The success of this project is very much built on our earlier extension in Rugby Road, Brighton. Particularly in the way in which the principles of glass and transparency characterise the extension. Exemplified by the contemporary detailing of glass to glass frameless glazing, working in collaboration with the company glazing company Max Light.
Guide to Brighton Extensions
We would always advise that the addition of an extension should be seen as an opportunity to bring more daylight into a property via many different ways. Roof lights of all types can flood the interior with light. Set within a sedum roof can be very attractive to look over from upper floors. Roof lights that connect to vertical glass screens with a frameless junction are elegant. As are thinner frames and sliding doors connecting the interior to the garden beyond.
Example of Brighton Extensions
Our extension project in Rugby Road Brighton remains an important part of our portfolio of work. It features in the Royal Institute of British Architects publication on transforming homes where Shape Architecture was one of only 30 UK practices to contribute a project.
