Client: Confidential
Sector: Private villa
Area: 16,000 sqft
Value: £7M
Status: Developed design
Our design for this private villa in Hampstead replaces an existing 1970s mock Georgian house. The design maximises the potential of the restricted site and wraps around the existing mature garden, retaining all the existing fine mature trees. The house is for a young and expanding family. The design creates a large open plan and double height living room which faces directly onto the garden, and around which all of the other spaces are organised. The living room has a large double height glazed wall which folds back during the summer to open the house up entirely to the outside. The glazing is shaded by a generous canopy that helps blur the lines between inside and outside. This is a contemporary house on a grand scale, but it is also highly efficient. As such there are no internal corridors, no wasted space but increased value.