Maida Vale House
LOCATION Maida Vale Conservation Area, City of Westminster, London.
BRIEF Rear garden extension, interior redesign, enhancing sustainability and garden connection.
STATUS Planning permission granted in 2023, design ongoing.
LSD Architects were approached to renovate a family home located in the Maida Vale Conservation Area in West London. The project brief included three main elements: a full-width, single-storey rear extension to replace the existing one, an internal refurbishment of the three-storey detached house, and a new single-storey garden outbuilding.
The existing house had several issues that our design aimed to resolve, including condensation and damp from inadequate insulation and ventilation, summer overheating, low ceiling heights, and limited connection to the garden.
Our approach involved stripping the house back to its structural core and implementing a range of modern upgrades: a new mechanical ventilation system with heat recovery, a heat pump, solar panels, improved insulation, underfloor heating, and high thermal mass elements. New windows and other fabric upgrades further improve the home’s energy efficiency and comfort.
The extension was designed as a light-filled space, open to both the garden and sky, featuring expansive glazing, high air tightness, and exposed masonry floors and walls to create flexible, inviting interiors that connect the house to nature.
The garden studio, envisioned as a modernist ruin partially sunken into the ground, serves as both a secluded retreat and a storage space for the clients' belongings.
LSD Architects managed the design and planning process, with Westminster City Council granting planning permission in 2023.
