The apartment was very poorly configured due to a series of badly designed interventions, leaving the spaces fragmented and erasing much of the original historical character. Our approach was to re-establish a connection with the building’s heritage by rebuilding the original spatial forms internally and introducing a contemporary extension at ground-floor level. This addition creates a renewed relationship with the rear garden, which already contained beautiful mature trees and planting.

We conceived the extension as a lightweight structure to minimise its visual impact against the listed building. It functions as a garden room, fully glazed towards the landscape, with an open, cantilevered corner that expands the internal space and visually dissolves the boundary between inside and outside.