{"id":377664,"date":"2025-08-27T13:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377664\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:01:17","slug":"material-works-extends-hackney-home-into-an-oversized-bay-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377664\/","title":{"rendered":"Material Works extends Hackney home into an oversized bay window"},"content":{"rendered":"

London architecture studio Material Works has updated a Victorian home<\/a> in Hackney<\/a>, extending into its garden with a large double-height bay window framed with natural stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Named Hackney Bay House, the project involved transforming what the studio described as a “dark and confined” dwelling into an open, light-filled series of spaces for a family.<\/p>\n

\"RearMaterial Works has updated a Victorian home in Hackney<\/p>\n

Despite being located in a conservation area, the neighbouring home had been extensively expanded before this status was granted, giving Material Works<\/a> a precedent to extend the client’s dwelling into its rear garden.<\/p>\n

Taking cues from the visual language of the terraced street, the extension was conceived of as an oversized bay window made from natural stone, scaling up a familiar architectural motif to bring light and garden views into a new dining area.<\/p>\n

\"InteriorA double-height bay window was added to the home’s rear<\/p>\n

“The existing terrace of houses has a clear rhythm to the rear, articulated by large bay windows at ground level,” Material Works director Dickon Hayward told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“Our new elevation reinterprets this, extending the glazing down to the lower ground level, with larger panes and framed in natural stone,” he added.<\/p>\n

\"KitchenOpen-plan living spaces are located on the ground floor<\/p>\n

The lower ground floor of the home has been completely reconfigured to house a singular living, dining and kitchen area, slightly sunken at the rear in order to maximise its ceiling height and help to demarcate its different areas.<\/p>\n

At the front of the home, an entertaining space overlooks a light well that sits below street level, while in the centre the kitchen is located alongside a timber staircase.<\/p>\n

Stepping down at the rear of the home, the living and dining area expands into a side extension topped by a glass ceiling and the double-height bay window extension, where it is overlooked by a new mezzanine study area on the level above.<\/p>\n

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“The space is articulated with the creation of a new level change and lowered floors increase the ceiling height and provide a generous proportion,” Hayward said.<\/p>\n

“At the rear elevation, this space opens vertically to create a double height space in front of the new bay window \u2013 allowing the daylight to be drawn deep into the centre of the plan.”<\/p>\n

“Overlooking the bay, a new mezzanine level creates a place for home working \u2013 offering a degree of separation and privacy while still being connected to the communal space below and offering elevated views into the garden,” he added.<\/p>\n

\"StaircaseExposed timber was used across the interior<\/p>\n

The palette of these new spaces was guided by natural and biodegradable materials, with an exposed timber structure, unpainted natural lime plaster and reclaimed bricks.<\/p>\n

Above, the upper floors that contain the home’s bedrooms largely follow the existing historic layout, while at the end of the garden, a studio workspace and music studio is clad in cork and topped with timber shingles.<\/p>\n

\"Cork-cladA detached studio was clad in cork<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in London, ConForm Architects drew on the bay window for the form of an extension to a home in Hampstead,<\/a> which was finished in green terrazzo, concrete and clay plaster, and DF_DC added a minimalist concrete extension to a Primrose Hill home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Fred Howarth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London architecture studio Material Works has updated a Victorian home in Hackney, extending into its garden with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,131772,4022,393,77,131770,45953,7931,257,131773,87364,17022,131771,126129,126130,83442,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-377664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-british-houses","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-extensions","15":"tag-hackney","16":"tag-houses","17":"tag-london","18":"tag-london-house-extensions","19":"tag-london-houses","20":"tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","21":"tag-residential-extensions","22":"tag-sectionall","23":"tag-sectionarchitecture","24":"tag-stone","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115100863216593530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}