Excerpt: Bonita Room Alteration designed by Irving Smith Architects is a renovation of a 1960s House by Alec Bowman. Our alteration starts with the addition of a room as a 13th birthday present, the ‘The Bonita Room’. The addition of around 12m2 and internal reconfiguration turns the house from a retiree into a home for a family of 5.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] A rearrangement of a much-loved but too-small house into a home for a family of five through the addition of around 12m2 and reconfiguration of internal spaces. New private areas are set to share space and be recessive away from the extensive glazed living areas of this 1960s modernist house.
An architect’s house is a thing to play with, a bit like life. Perhaps even more so when it’s an architecture inherited almost unchanged from Alec Bowman’s original 1960 design for a retired couple, and in dire need of simple things like a kitchen, spaces to fit a family, and a connection to the garden.
Our alteration starts with the addition of a room as a 13th birthday present, the ‘The Bonita Room’. The addition of around 12m2 and internal reconfiguration turns the house from a retiree into a home for a family of 5.
The alteration firstly accepts what we all like about the house and then looks for what’s missing. New work carefully plays darker, secondary, and supportive.
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