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The house lacked an informal kitchen and dining space and the existing return suffered with cramped internal dimensions and poor links to the existing garden below, making the spaces unusable for contemporary family life. 

A new potting shed to the rear of the return  forms a transition space between the interior and exterior, which along with a new staircase from the main floor creates a dialogue between the lower ground floor garden and the piano nobile, so often ignored in the conversion of this type of dwelling. 

The design creates a rear return more suitable in scale and playful in nature with an orthogonal emphasis reflecting that of the original terrace. 

The reflectivity and solidity of the glass contrasts the flat darkness of the voids and window openings, in the creation of a sculptural form, which sits in deference against the main wall of the house and is encapsulated in the reflections of the planting of the garden adjoining.