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  • Brendon Lodge is a 1980s house located in a suburban context on the periphery of Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The original house was mundane externally and internally and the brief was to introduce a series of contemporary, sustainable interventions that lifted the spirit of the house and provided more space for a family of 6.

    This submission is for the first phase of the project, a rear extension which focuses on the use of light and space. We used higher quality materials than the existing such as Petersen bricks and FSC UK Douglas Fir structure.

    The form of the roof was influenced by the need to create taller ceilings than the existing, transitioning from old to new without a step at the interface. It rises to a point on one side to give privacy from the neighbours and then drops on the other to reduce window size and solar gain. The result is a simple but elegant exposed structure, that hopefully lifts the spirit.

    The brickwork is returned from the outside to the inside and the Douglas fir structure is reflected in the Douglas fir ply kitchen.  The lighting is simple and discrete shifting the focus to the timber form.

    The next phase of the project will see the existing roof replaced, the existing brickwork painted and the front of the house extended in a similar style to the rear.

     

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    • Building Type Residential
    • Location Bovingdon Green, Marlow
    • Value Private
    • Status Phase 1 complete
    • Client Private
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  • Brendon Lodge
    < back
    • Building Type Residential
    • Location Bovingdon Green, Marlow
    • Value Private
    • Status Phase 1 complete
    • Client Private
    • small_image_1 2837
    • large_image_1 2853
    • small_image_2 2833
    • large_image_2 2850
    • small_image_3 2835
    • large_image_3 2852
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    • small_image_5 2843
    • large_image_5 2851
    • small_image_6 2839
    • large_image_6 2838
    • small_image_7 3088
    • large_image_7 3087
    • small_image_8 3094
    • large_image_8 3093
    • small_image_9 3090
    • large_image_9 2959
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    • large_image_10 3091
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  • Brendon Lodge is a 1980s house located in a suburban context on the periphery of Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The original house was mundane externally and internally and the brief was to introduce a series of contemporary, sustainable interventions that lifted the spirit of the house and provided more space for a family of 6.

    This submission is for the first phase of the project, a rear extension which focuses on the use of light and space. We used higher quality materials than the existing such as Petersen bricks and FSC UK Douglas Fir structure.

    The form of the roof was influenced by the need to create taller ceilings than the existing, transitioning from old to new without a step at the interface. It rises to a point on one side to give privacy from the neighbours and then drops on the other to reduce window size and solar gain. The result is a simple but elegant exposed structure, that hopefully lifts the spirit.

    The brickwork is returned from the outside to the inside and the Douglas fir structure is reflected in the Douglas fir ply kitchen.  The lighting is simple and discrete shifting the focus to the timber form.

    The next phase of the project will see the existing roof replaced, the existing brickwork painted and the front of the house extended in a similar style to the rear.