Conservatories and garden rooms: overview
Garden room: Suffolk
One of the practice's aims is to introduce light into buildings and to link indoor and outdoor spaces. This can often be achieved by constructing a conservatory or garden room. The main image shows such a space in a house in Suffolk carried out for friends before setting up the practice.
Once the practice was established, one of the earliest projects was for a house in Greenwich where there was an unusable space on the north side of the house, between two single storey back extensions, leading to a wonderful garden. We were commissioned on the basis of a concept sketch which had been prepared to give our client an indication of the potential. The principal difference between the concept and the executed result was the introduction of hammer beam-style supports for the gutters either side of the glass roof, thereby eliminating the cross beams.
