About Scenario Architecture in Wandsworth
Wandsworth is a hidden gem in South London, often overshadowed by its neighbours, Battersea and Wimbledon. Known for its slender streets framed by wrought iron gates and flowering trees, Wandsworth offers an enviable blend of charm and tranquillity. With outstanding schools, peaceful parks, and the gentle flow of the River Wandle, it’s a haven for contented living.
At Scenario Architecture, we specialise in reimagining heritage properties and crafting new builds that blend function with timeless design. Since 2007, we’ve worked closely with homeowners, tailoring each project to reflect their lifestyle and vision.
Our acclaimed work, including the award-nominated Living Scenarios, exemplifies our approach to creating thoughtful, client-focused architecture. Featured in Elle Decoration, Dezeen, Houzz, and Ideal Home, our projects showcase how we bring creativity and precision to every home in Wandsworth.
Looking to transform your Wandsworth property? Let’s collaborate to create a home that’s as unique as its setting.
Expert Wandsworth Architects for Residential Projects
Our team of Wandsworth architects is recognised for delivering thoughtful residential design, the balances. We specialise in home extensions, loft conversions, basement and rear extensions, and full refurbishments, creating spaces that are both functional and visually striking. With extensive experience working with Lambeth and Wandsworth Councils, we prepare planning applications that align with building regulations, conservation area guidelines, and local planning expectations ensuring a smooth and efficient approval process. As an RIBA-chartered practice, we support our clients at every stage, from initial design concepts through to planning, compliance, and construction. Our residential projects across London demonstrate how good design can maximise natural light, complement period features, and create homes that feel contemporary, comfortable and timeless.
Projects
Starting your Wandsworth project
Most building projects in Wandsworth require approval from the local authority. Wandsworth architects can help you through the process, collaborating with council officials to see through your application. Scenario Architects has successfully steered clients through the permissions stage.
We’ve drawn up an illustrated synopsis to help guide you through the planning process for a Wandsworth-based renovation, restoration, addition or new-build.
If you are thinking about starting an architectural project in Wandsworth, be it a renovation, or an extension to an existing property or even a new build house we are here to help.
TIP: To find out the actual track record which any architects you may be considering has with your local council, go to the planning application search page on your local council’s website and use the search by agent option.
Working with Scenario Architecture on your Wandsworth project
Our boutique studio specialises in residential architecture, offering bespoke services for home additions, renovations and new-builds. Based in Wandsworth, we practice across London and beyond.
A RIBA Chartered Practice, Scenario complies with the UK’s strict health and safety criteria. We collaborate closely with our clients throughout every stage of the process, from the design phase, through planning and construction. We aim to deliver every project on time and on budget.
Our skilled team works with the latest 3D design technology: real-time digital visualisations and virtual reality. We feel they are the most effective and efficient tools for seeing through our work, choosing fittings and simulating natural light.
This Chartered Institute of Building case study features a recent Scenario project, demonstrating the benefits of advanced technologies in designing for the domestic sphere.
Established in 2007, Scenario Architecture is a boutique architecture studio focused on the high-end residential sector, working extensively throughout and around London. We specialise in every scale and type of domestic project, from interior alterations, through full renovations and refurbishments to new build homes. We offer a full bespoke architecture service tailored to fit your requirements and aspirations.
Our friendly and highly skilled team has the knowledge, experience and expertise necessary to take you step-by-step through the challenging and exciting journey of creating your new home. We will work together with you in close collaboration from initial design, through detail design and planning all the way to tender, construction and successful completion of your project on time and within budget.
Scenario Architecture is an RIBA Chartered Practice, which essentially means that we are compliant with the RIBA (Royal Institute of Chartered Architects) strict criteria, covering insurance, health and safety and quality management systems.
As early adopters of latest technology, we use as a standard for all projects a verity of innovative 3D design and visualisation tools to create and communicate design with our clients. Our experience shows that Real-Time visualisations and Virtual Reality tours are extremely powerful tools to streamline the process of choosing material finishes fixtures and fittings as well as simulating realistic natural light conditions.
When we produce accurate and reliable construction information we use the latest 3D BIM technology, (BIM stands for Building Information Modelling) which means that all project information is derived from a single accurate and coordinated 3D model. Using this cutting-edge technology collaboratively with other consultants as well as contractors has proven to save time and cost for our clients.
A case study featuring one of our projects was published by the Chartered Institute of Building, demonstrating the great benefits of this advanced technology specifically with domestic projects.
Scenario Architecture in London deliver design and architectural expertise for residential projects. We were established in 2007 by Ran Ankory and Maya Carni who both trained with the AA School of Architecture. Scenario have grown to an award-winning team of nine. We have been featured in Dezeen and Elle Decoration UK.
Our highly experienced team of architects Stoke Newington work with clients using innovative 3D and Virtual Reality technology that simulates your new home before the first brick is even laid. This simulation technique allows you to see beautiful scenarios, designed to fit your life. An organic process, it often influences the choice of materials and design methods.
If you are looking for a top architects Wandsworth, we can help with your project. We are a RIBA Chartered Practice and we operate across the following areas and postal districts: Camden, Dalston, Hackney, Hampstead, Highgate, Haringey, Islington, East London, Knightsbridge, Kensington and Chelsea, Mayfair, Notting Hill, North London, West London, West Hampstead, Shoreditch, Southwark, Stoke Newington, N1, N6, NW3, N16 and E5.
Wandsworth Architects
Scenario is an established architecture practice focusing on contemporary residential design. We take on projects of every scale and scope, from home refurbishment, renovation and expansions to new-builds.
Victorian renovations are more compassionate today than they’ve ever been, with homeowners striving to preserve architectural elements like decorative cornicing, ceiling roses, skirting boards and dada rails. Sash windows are being replaced by specially made wood reproductions and wood-burning fireplaces recouped after being sealed off for decades. Paint companies like Farrow & Ball have built multinationals out of replicating the de rigueur colours of Victorian times. And new tile ceramicists are bringing back traditional motifs with contemporary silhouettes, for front gardens and foyers. Hardwood floors have made a comeback, with timber salvage and reproduction going strong.
Most renovations focus on transforming the core of the home, and revolutionise the kitchen and bathrooms in the process. To recoup the extra floor area today’s families have become accustomed to, Wandsworth architects are extending into voids in the lofts and side returns common in Victorians. Small period kitchens can open up into the side return without eradicating period features; in the recovered space, a corner can be reserved for a powder room or utility room. Ditto the loft: pushing up the ceiling and pushing out dormer windows can make new space available for an en suite bathroom.
With extending out into dead space comes the welcoming in of natural light. Upward-facing Velux windows become possible once the upper floor is properly extended and the main floor pushed out beyond the confines of the original footprint. If a second-storey extension is permitted in your plans, an internal void can bring natural light from the top floor downwards, and vice versa.
In our client's words
We wanted to renovate our house in a conservation area in central London. Given this involved a complete demolition and new build with an extra floor on top, getting planning approval was always going to be tricky. Scenario did an amazing job on the new house 'envelope' and throughout the planning phase. We couldn't have wished for better from them and having succeeded in gaining planning approval owe them a very big 'thank you'.
Scenario designed a kitchen extension for us, and we are delighted with the results. The process was well organised, planned and delivered, and the whole team were a pleasure to work with. I would highly recommend them for their design, planning and project management skills.
Worked with these guys on the internal development of our office. From start to finish they were great. They got what we wanted first time and really made working with them very easy. Their aftercare has been great too helping us deal with something that they were not involved with in the first place. Will highly recommend them to anyone.
Further Reading
Our small London studio specialises in residential architecture. We create bespoke home additions, renovations and new-build properties. Based in Wandsworth, we practice throughout London and the Southeast.
Scenario is a RIBA Chartered Practice, complying with the organisation’s strict health and safety standards. Our skilled team works with the latest 3D design technology: real-time digital visualisations and virtual reality. We feel they are the most effective and efficient tools for seeing through our work, choosing fittings and simulating natural light. This Chartered Institute of Building case study features a recent Scenario project, demonstrating the benefits of advanced technologies in designing for the domestic sphere.
Victorian houses account for one sixth of all British homes. With their limited kitchens and cosy rooms, expanding them has become de rigueur. Victorian extensions are common practice around the country and especially in central London, where homeowners seek extra space in tightly regulated areas by moving into the loft and side return.
Most contemporary architects have worked out space-saving and space-enhancing solutions that can be replicated from house to house. The loft extension, side-return extension and basement excavation have become commonplace moves across the capital and the Home Counties. These strategies are popular because they work to expand a house when a family needs it and bring in valuable natural light. At Scenario, we use up-to-the-minute technology to recoup space and expand in all directions. We maximise hidden corners under stairs and in the eaves. And we find ways to improve the flow of a home that incorporate unusual angles and silhouettes.
An extension of only a few metres can open up a space dramatically in many cases – particularly if there is a creative design behind it, integrating the adjoining rooms. Expanding into a side-return or rear garden can make an eat-in kitchen from a galley, or contribute to a so-called great room in the place of a smaller, darker layout. The removal of a structural wall can allow for a kitchen island where counter space was lacking, and often enough space to incorporate an office nook. In the Victorian terraced houses found around Wandsworth and elsewhere in South London, a side-return extension has great potential for a major lifestyle change.
Ditto a loft conversion. The loft is already there. Opening it up with dormer windows or by lowering the floor slightly avoids increasing the roof volume beyond the regulated amount. And yet it will transform an unused void into up to two bedrooms and a full bathroom. Suddenly a couple or their children can co-opt an entire floor for themselves, or relegate the space for guests. Scenario Architecture tailors all our residential projects to the lives of the homeowners we work with. Just as no two families are the same, no two kitchens, bathrooms or wardrobes should be. We consult with our clients every step of the way to make sure the way they live, work, sleep, cook, dress and play is reflected in their environment. For this reason, every one of our designs has a different look and flow. So on the outside, you may recognise the house as Victorian, but inside, you won’t recognise it as a Scenario House.
Applying for an extension in a London conservation area should be fairly straightforward, as long as your project complies with the neighbourhood elevation and footprint. An architect, Wandsworth based, can undertake a Building Regulations application for you, ensuring your design complies with the local fire-safety, ventilation, plumbing and structural standards. We at Scenario have fostered relationships with most building and planning commissions across London and we often tackle these responsibilities for our clients.
