The existing single storey family house with a double pitched, tin clad roof, is very intertwined with the surrounding buildings, both structurally and also with regards to the utility services. Very typical for this area. The house was built in the 30’s of the twentieth century. It’s one of many at that time temporarily built homes, which were to house families of local blue collar workers.
Internal layout of the house is a result of a gradual infilling of leftover spaces inside small streets, clenched between buildings of this rather organically grown urban nevironment. The layout is very chaotic and does not correspond with nowadays requirements. Every room has a floor level at different height in relation to the other and headrooms are low, only 2,15m. Rooms feel dark and a locally trapped moisture contributes to formation of molds.

The goal of the proposed works was to ‘clean up’ the chaotic layout, dissect the house strcuturally from the neighbouring buildings, create separate connection to the utilities and last but not leasr to increase the usable internal floor area. At the same time it was very important to bring as much daylight into the newly reconfigured spaces as possible. 
The new extension is covered with extensive green roof. External walls have a sandwich structure. Bricks from the demolition works on the existing house have found new life as facing brickwork on the outside. Use of exposed bricks ties this building back to the past, where employees of the local brick factories would bring this construction material back home for the building of their own homes. Bricks are complemented with fair faces concrete plinth and cornice, which run all the way into the courtyard and form sheltered outdoor seating.