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Sunken House David Adjaye

From the architect:

The form of this house combines certain attributes of its immediate neighbors. The De Beauvoir Estate is an area of semi-detached villas which have elegant proportions and shallow, hipped roofs. Unusually, for an area of this kind, a number of later workshop buildings have been added to the Victorian fabric and one of these is directly opposite the site. When seen from the street, the Sunken House appears to have the habitable volume of one of the two dwellings which make one of the semi-detached villas and, as such, represents the underlying unit of the Victorian development. But the flat roof matches that of the workshop building across the road and the language of the external openings (fixed glazing and solid doors and ventilation panels) has more to do with buildings of this type, rather than conventional houses.

Images and text via David Adjaye

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The scale of this project refers more to the chapel or to the barn than to the house. The wooden hull defines a unique and oversized space in which is inscribed a sculpted object. Without ever touching the envelope this object integrates the bathroom, sleeping area and the enclosed beds, stairs, and the library. The entire inner cladding, composed of panels of plywood against pine is soft and warm, in contrast to the raw and rough outer skin. The natural skin patina developed over time creates and ageless building, giving the impression that it has always been there.

It merits mentioning three items of the design’s environmental approach:

Use of the site without earthwork 

Wood heating and passive solar 

No electrical connection

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