A modern roof terrace garden, designed to complement the contemporary architecture and as an inner city hideaway.
Location: Bloomsbury, WC1
Roof Terrace Garden 150 sq m
Consultation and Brief:
The clients are both hard working professionals and their jobs take them all around the world. They contacted us because they wanted to make improvements to their roof terrace. They had recently purchased a new-build property in Bloomsbury, central London. It was one of three houses that had been recently completed. New builds are rare in this area and this is the first development at this location for over one hundred years.
Being an area of significant historical heritage, the architects had to design something that blended all the latest in contemporary design with the areas rich historical heritage. With limited outdoor space, the client wanted to make better use of their decked terrace.
They also wanted us to create a stunning, special, private oasis. It was essential that it complemented the contemporary feel of the architecture and it had to transform the rooftop into a retreat from the hustle and bustle of the busy streets below.
Garden Design Implementation:
A rooftop pergola was constructed with angled screening, integral seating and bespoke wooden planters. The slatted screen was deliberately slanted to match the architect’s design of the roof access.
The area was completely re-decked in high quality screwless decking; and air conditioning units were carefully disguised inside bespoke, open slatted cupboards. The adjacent roof space was covered in a special sedum green roof. Bespoke standalone planters were built and planted with small specimen trees.
Planting:
Trees and Palms: Olea europaea, Trachycarpus wagnerianus
Shrubs & Climbers: Lavandula angustifolia, Trachelospermum
Grasses and Ferns: Miscanthus ‘Kleine Silberspinne’, Trachelospermum, Lonicera
Perennials: Erigeron karvinskianus, Sedum
Location: Bloomsbury, Central London WC1
Roof Terrace Garden 150 sq m
Consultation and Brief:
The clients are both hard working professionals and their jobs take them all around the world. They contacted us because they wanted to make improvements to their roof terrace. They had recently purchased a new-build property in Bloomsbury, central London. It was one of three houses that had been recently completed. New builds are rare in this area and this is the first development at this location for over one hundred years.
Being an area of significant historical heritage, the architects had to design something that blended all the latest in contemporary design with the areas rich historical heritage. With limited outdoor space, the client wanted to make better use of their decked terrace.
They also wanted us to create a stunning, special, private oasis. It was essential that it complemented the contemporary feel of the architecture and it had to transform the rooftop into a retreat from the hustle and bustle of the busy streets below.
Garden Design Implementation:
A rooftop pergola was constructed with angled screening, integral seating and bespoke wooden planters. The slatted screen was deliberately slanted to match the architect’s design of the roof access.
The area was completely re-decked in high quality screwless decking; and air conditioning units were carefully disguised inside bespoke, open slatted cupboards. The adjacent roof space was covered in a special sedum green roof. Bespoke standalone planters were built and planted with small specimen trees.
Materials:
Kebony screwless decking, Cedar pergola structure, trellising and air-con screen cover, Kebony planters, Kebony Benches, Sedum green roof matting units, Hunza lights, terracotta pots, Strongtie fixings, Claber micro drip systems.
Planting:
Trees and Palms: Olea europaea, Trachycarpus wagnerianus
Shrubs & Climbers: Lavandula angustifolia, Trachelospermum
Grasses and Ferns: Miscanthus ‘Kleine Silberspinne’, Trachelospermum, Lonicera
Perennials: Erigeron karvinskianus, Sedum
Wakefield Street – Bloomsbury WC1
Transformation of a Basement Lightwell in WC1
Location: Bloomsbury, WC1
Small light well – Basement 70 sq m
Consultation and Brief:
The light well is looked out onto from the basement kitchen and is accessed via large sliding doors. Their living room is on the upper ground level and looks out onto a listed wall (part of a Victorian park) and this wall forms the boundary to their property.
The clients wanted to create something a little more interesting to look at.
Garden Design Implementation:
The original layout was not very inspiring and was a little drab. We spruced up the light well by cladding the existing retaining wall with buff quartz stone. This natural material gave an eye-catching dimension to a previously bland, stained, white wall. The top of the retaining wall was planted with low maintenance grasses.
Either side of the light well, at kitchen basement level, we designed and had fabricated, two bespoke tapered stainless steel planters. These planters were attached to the walls and planted with climbers. They were designed like this to make the most of the limited outdoor space.
Materials:
Buff quartz stone wall cladding, Mapei adhesives, bespoke stainless steel tapered planters, stainless steel cable trellis rigs, Claber micro drip irrigation, sawn buff sandstone coping stones.
Planting:
Shrubs & Climbers: Trachelospermum, Lonicera
Grasses & Ferns: Miscanthus ‘Kleine Silberspinne’
Location: Bloomsbury, London WC1
Small light well – Basement 70 sq m
Consultation and Brief:
The light well is looked out onto from the basement kitchen and is accessed via large sliding doors. Their living room is on the upper ground level and looks out onto a listed wall (part of a Victorian park) and this wall forms the boundary to their property.
The clients wanted to create something a little more interesting to look at.
Garden Design Implementation:
The original layout was not very inspiring and was a little drab. We spruced up the light well by cladding the existing retaining wall with buff quartz stone. This natural material gave an eye-catching dimension to a previously bland, stained, white wall. The top of the retaining wall was planted with low maintenance grasses.
Either side of the light well, at kitchen basement level, we designed and had fabricated, two bespoke tapered stainless steel planters. These planters were attached to the walls and planted with climbers. They were designed like this to make the most of the limited outdoor space.
Materials:
Buff quartz stone wall cladding, Mapei adhesives, bespoke stainless steel tapered planters, stainless steel cable trellis rigs, Claber micro drip irrigation, sawn buff sandstone coping stones.
Planting:
Shrubs & Climbers: Trachelospermum, Lonicera
Grasses & Ferns: Miscanthus ‘Kleine Silberspinne’
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