Shadow House retains and celebrates the elegant proportions of the original gable. Achieved by expressing the new two-storey extension as a single volume as if extruded from the original house like a contemporary shadow from which a garden room extends and opens up to the outside.

The yellow brick gable elevation of the original house is left exposed internally as a reminder of the old volume and is flooded with light from the narrow windows defining a recessed shadow gap transition from the original house to the new extension.

The material choices are subtle and have deliberately been restrained to emphasise the proportions of the existing volume. The two-storey volume is finished in white render giving the new extension a distinctly contemporary appearance. The garden room extension – vertically clad in cedar and glazed with sliding, metal profile doors – completely opens up the kitchen/dining to the outside, occupying the transition from house to garden where family life is blurred between inside and out.