Extraordinary roof to rear kitchen extension in Forest Hill

These customers wanted a rear extension with a difference.

This Victorian terraced house had very simple decoration and had not been updated for years so the customer's wanted to extend into two outhouses (one of which was the original toilet) to create a wrap-around single-storey kitchen extension and also include some internal alterations to form a ground floor bathroom.

The client had ambitions to do something different to the usual box extension and had a desire to play with form and light and the Architect used cardboard models to develop a variety of options for getting improved and interesting light and shadow into the extension and main living areas eventually agreeing upon this sculptured roof shape.