A mews house off Oxford Street, stripped back to its perimeter brick walls and rebuilt within. Once a five-bay garage with a flat above, it is now a family home with a roof garden.

With exterior changes tightly restricted by planning, the street elevation was preserved — the only move at ground level was to recentre the entrance, opening up a more coherent plan within.

The design turns on two cuts through the house: a rooflight running its full length, and a new staircase that carries both circulation and daylight down through the levels. Lowering the slab over the former garage creates four stepped floors, with a roof terrace tucked between the butterfly roofs.

Living spaces and bedrooms are distributed across both storeys rather than stacked in the traditional way. Bounded by neighbours on three sides, the house draws light from every available edge — the rooflight above, the cantilevered roof terrace glazed on both flanks, and new openings onto a narrow courtyard.

The result is a layered sequence of spaces, each with its own quality of light.