Persevering with our 2022 assessment, we gather 10 residential extensions featured on Dezeen this 12 months, from a weathering metal construction perched on high of a bungalow to a pair of concrete volumes added to a distant farmhouse.

You do not have to look to very large new buildings to seek out placing structure. Small-scale tasks increasing present houses are sometimes among the many hottest tales on Dezeen.

Listed here are 10 residential extensions we lined in 2022:

Namora Home, Portugal, by Filipe Pina and David Bilo

Architects Filipe Pina and David Bilo added two gabled volumes clad with tough board-marked concrete to Casa NaMora, a farmhouse in Guarda, Portugal.

Organized to step down the mountainous web site, the intersecting volumes include massive residing, eating and kitchen area in addition to three bedrooms, releasing up area within the unique home and giving the event a extra placing total look.

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Magpie Home, UK, by DGN Studio

Described as a “private museum” for its occupant, Magpie Home is a terraced house in east London that was prolonged to offer a backdrop for an in depth mid-century furnishings assortment.

The mission, by DGN Studio, included opening up the north-facing house’s floor flooring, in addition to a renovation of its first flooring. Downstairs, skylights fitted between picket beams illuminate an inside characterised by painted uncovered brick, stainless-steel and timber accents.

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The Perch, USA, by Nicole Blair

This weathering steel-clad asymmetrical home extension is perched two centimetres above a household bungalow in Austin, therefore its identify. Architect Nicole Blair was tasked with increasing the occupants’ residing area with out sacrificing any of the house’s present again backyard.

The unusually formed extension rests on 4 metal columns and was assembled off-site to keep away from disrupting the lot’s vegetation. Inside, residing areas are wearing pinky hues and framed by tongue-and-groove picket planks on the ceilings and partitions.

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Cascada Home, Mexico, by Ana Nuño de Buen and Luis Younger

A rectilinear metallic body in a darkish shade of inexperienced kinds Cascada Home, an ethereal condominium nestled inside a lush surrounding that tops an present Fifties concrete constructing in Mexico Metropolis.

Architects Ana Nuño de Buen and Luis Younger designed the construction with two roof slopes that drain in the direction of a central gutter which manages rainfall, whereas inside, the metal construction is left uncovered to create a particular inside.

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London home, UK, by Structure for London

Oak cabinetry and gray limestone fixtures come collectively on this three-storey Edwardian house in London’s Muswell Hill, which Structure for London renovated and prolonged for studio founder Ben Ridley.

Partitions had been coated with lime plaster to type an hermetic layer within the curiosity of mitigating warmth loss, whereas wooden and limestone had been chosen instead of cement-based supplies to scale back the mission’s carbon footprint.

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Quarry Home, USA, by AB Design Studio

A boulder-studded web site in Montecito, California, gives the setting for Quarry Home – a Fifties house suspected to be initially designed by architect Lutah Maria Riggs that was generously prolonged by structure workplace AB Design Studio.

The up to date constructing and an extra guesthouse wrap round a newly constructed swimming pool. Chosen for his or her fireplace resistance, the mission’s supplies embrace vertical slats of ebonised redwood and darkish metallic cladding.

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Redwood Home, USA, by Studio Terpeluk

This 1976 Albert Lanier-designed home in San Francisco was prolonged to function a brand new visitor suite, media room, house workplace and moist bar in an in depth renovation by Studio Terpeluk.

Tough-sawn redwood veneered plywood salvaged from the unique construct clads most of the inside partitions and ceilings, whereas the lounge boasts wraparound views of the town skyline.

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Blended Home, China, by Arch Studio

Blended Home is a timber courtyard vacation house on the outskirts of Beijing, which Arch Studio expanded to incorporate an extra picket quantity with an undulating roof that connects the 2 unique constructions.

Described by the structure workplace as creating “a dialogue between the previous and new constructing volumes”, the brand new constructing is characterised by uncovered supplies and recycled pink and gray bricks that echo the positioning’s unique structure.

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Kensington Place, UK, by O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects

A rear extension clad in pink porphyry stone takes centre stage at this Victorian London house that was tailored by O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects.

The mission concerned the renovation of the present lower-ground flooring, the place the boxy extension was positioned. Giant sliding doorways with iroko wooden frames open out onto a courtyard, whereas the construction’s pale plywood joinery inside is meant to enhance the pink stone outdoors.

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Casa San Cristobal, Mexico, by Marc Perrotta

Native architect Marc Perrotta changed a “clumsy” quantity with a concrete, glass and brick extension at Casa San Cristobal, a home in Mexico’s Mérida.

Containing a lot of the residing areas, this two-storey, U-shaped addition creates a trio of courtyards full of lush native crops which are designed to offer reduction from the tropical warmth.

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