House Expansion | Midlothian Drive House By NORD Architecture

The one storey side extension allows a reconfiguration of the internal spaces to integrate the house more fully with the garden as well as providing a more useable family kitchen and service accommodation space.

The concept was to create an architecture of lightness that engages with the garden against a materiality that contrasts with the solidity and mass of the introverted Victorian sandstone structure. This lightness is expressed through a single planar skin of glass that wraps seamlessly around the extensions perimeter. The resulting glazed and slate enclosure creates a seamless link between the existing house and garden allowing the extension to act as a filter for viewing the garden.......more