An impressive large staircase in a turn of the 20th century house made the circulation generous, light and airy, but its dominance compromised the entire layout. The challenge was to replace this once favoured staircase, enhancing this previous spacious quality whilst accommodating 5 bedrooms with two separate kitchens and livings /dinings.

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Architects: Tsuruta Architects

Location: London, United Kingdom

Area: 214.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Tim Crocker

Collaborators: Tall Engineer, Webb and Yates engineers

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From the architect. An impressive large staircase in a turn of the 20th century house made the circulation generous, light and airy, but its dominance compromised the entire layout. The challenge was to replace this once favoured staircase, enhancing this previous spacious quality whilst accommodating 5 bedrooms with two separate kitchens and livings /dinings.
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The perforated timber treads and risers, and balustrade of the new staircase let through light and air, but in a more compact overall configuration and an essence of the airines from the original staircase can still be experienced.  At the same time it provides more evenly divided bedrooms on the first floor.

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Traces of engraved e-mail dialogues between the client and architect appear on the stair stringer and handrail, and also on t...