Home tour | A vaulted loft apartment in London
On first glance, you might assume this soaring, cathedral-like space is some kind of purpose-built mansion on a huge countryside plot. It’s actually the top-floor flat of a Victorian house in Hampstead, London, which has undergone a total transformation thanks to Dan Marks and his team at architectural studio MATA . The property belongs to a family who live abroad but use it as their base whenever they return to the UK. They commissioned MATA to renovate it throughout, opening up the previously cramped attic rooms while extending it from two bedrooms to three to better suit their needs. Local conservation area rules dictated that any changes had to be invisible from the street, so MATA’s solution was to infill the valley between two parallel roof ridges. This created a new flat roof and substantially enlarged the internal space, while sitting entirely within the building’s existing footprint when viewed from ground level. Inside, the roof’s structure has been left exposed, creati...
