Talk about trick of the eye – explore this London family home with light and contemporary design at the heart of its renovation 👀
Flow Architecture with Magrits have created a flowing London home, called Light Falls, in West London.In London’s picturesque streets, Victorian residential properties abound, yet many of those grand houses need significant redevelopment in order to respond adequately to modern living standards.
Set on a leafy, quiet street the existing house spanned four levels, and the architects reconfigured the structure fully, while adding a basement floor and a double height rear extension for more space. Rather than changing the exterior , the team focused on transforming the core of the building and the internal arrangement instead, creating a ‘heart’ for the home, in the shape of an interior courtyard that brings light straight into the deepest parts of the building.
In fact, the design was very much led by the architects’ desire to maximise the potential for natural light inside – contrasting the Victorian property’s traditionally fairly small, darker rooms.
Meanwhile, the extension leads out to a reworked garden at the back of the property, where a curving, paved path merges with carefully planned landscaping, continuing the themes that dominate inside: a sense of seamless, softness and dynamism. Fittingly named ‘Light Falls’, the house feels bright, open and generous. ‘The name Light Falls perfectly expresses the soul of the house,’ the team explains. ‘The cascading effect of daylight, brought in vertical motion to the centre of the building, enlivens the interior spaces and dissolves the borders between outdoor and indoor spaces.’ §
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