House Recast

The owners, a retired couple, approached Studio Ben Allen to reconsider the piecemeal rear façade of their end of terrace Victorian house in north London and to provide a new kitchen and two new bathrooms – one to be on the ground floor and accessible. Studio Ben Allen were encouraged by the client to use the project as a testbed for ideas.  Led by architects Omar Ghazal and Ben Allen, they used the project as a vehicle to push the boundaries of off-site fabrication – something that they felt was lacking in smaller scale residential or alteration projects.