RESIDENTIAL
Slot House
London, England
2014
Replacing a 1970s glazed infill, this intervention to the rear of a Victorian townhouse in the Primrose Hill Conservation Area of Chalk Farm reconfigures and extends a series of dark, cellular rooms into an unusually large inside space. Designing – and building – it was an almost surgical operation, introducing a very delicate, highly-detailed glass structure into a very confined area and cutting back the ground-floor slab to make a new vertical connection.
Views out are framed by oversized, yet proportionally fitting openings: a 5.5-metre-high door to the garden and vertically sliding sash windows that either screen or reveal.
As found, the 1970s glass infill extension.
The townhouse is part of a terrace, which has been incrementally remodelled and extended by the various owners over time.
The new connecting stair under construction.
During construction a small and mysterious window was discovered, connecting through the party wall into the neighbour’s back courtyard.
View down into the slot during construction.
Many of the furnishings and finishes were selected with the client. Templates for the Carrera marble countertop enabled us to select a continuous piece with the most consistent pattern and grain.