A Tuscan Veranda

Turner Architects

Lambeth, 2022

Shortlisted

Designed by Turner Architects, A Tuscan Veranda features a kitchen remodelling and extension of a family home in Lambeth. Drawing on the Italian style of the terraced house with classic and perfectly proportioned Romanesque arches, A Tuscan Veranda offers framed views of the house through the garden. The repeated form draws on Raphael’s Pillars of Knowledge, and the result is a relaxed space for conversation and entertainment, with a table functioning as the centrepiece of family life.

To extend the kitchen, Turner Architects dropped the level for height and drew on Italian inspiration: Renaissance and Tuscan. The clients gave clues from their home and social media styling, and set a vision of shared meals on a Tuscan veranda.

The design’s narrative is personal and site-specific; its clarity enabled a simple and unique response to a standard kitchen extension brief evoking both classical architecture via its Victorian Italianate cousin and modern-day Tuscan sunlit long meals. The design responds to modern approaches to our homes: kitchens as gathering space with improved access to the garden. The kitchen, previously small with no room for a table and disconnected from the garden, is now the focus of the house, light and socially-driven.

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“The design responds to modern approaches to our homes: kitchens as gathering space with improved access to the garden.”

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