Islington Stone House

Stone House, a Grade II listed villa in the Barnsbury Conservation Area, Islington, was extended and refurbished to create a home with generous spaces for family life, both for gathering and for quiet contemplation.

The project includes a new rear extension, a reconfigured lower ground floor kitchen, a new master suite and a redesigned garden.

The new extension accommodates a dining room, home office and a secluded contemplative space for yoga. The yoga room is illuminated by a generous rooflight that frames an expansive view of the sky, inspired by James Turrell's skyspace structures.

Externally, the rear extension is designed as a stone pavilion. Agglomerate terrazzo forms a robust plinth upon which limestone piers rise to create the structure of the extension. The natural stone blocks were locally sourced and selected for their low embodied energy.

The bathrooms continue the notion of carved-out spaces. The rich interior textures of limestone and Tadelakt walls create cave-like monastic rooms dedicated to the daily rituals of ablution.

Architecture for London fabricated a series of bespoke concrete elements for the project in our workshop, including bathroom basins and fireplace hearths. These custom pieces reinforce the material language of stone and concrete that runs throughout the extension and the renovated spaces.

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