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Our clients approached us with their brief with an interesting property they had purchased. This may have had some tinkering with it in its past, leaving it in need of a whole new look inside and out. Internally it needed better connectivity between spaces and enlarging to better cater to the needs and working of this modern family. Externally, it needed to be more welcoming on its frontage and open up to its beautiful garden at its rear.
The project brought together two linked but previously separate buildings to create a single, cohesive 700-seat auditorium and community facility. Through the careful reorganisation of internal spaces, including relocating staircases and fire escapes and extending the ground-floor car park, the scheme created a more open, flexible and welcoming environment. The transformation made better use of the existing buildings while providing the growing Church community with much-needed capacity and ancillary spaces, giving this former factory site a renewed purpose and a new lease of life.
A characterful property is sensitively altered and extended to meet the clients’ current and future needs. The ground floor is reorganised around an open-plan Kitchen, Dining and Family space, linked to the existing Living room, with a new Utility zone. The first floor gains a new bedroom suite overlooking the garden. The front extension complements the existing property with an oriel window echoing the bay, while a contemporary glazed dining space projects into the rear garden.