 
Client
Private Client
Budget
Confidential
Status
Completed
Structural & Environmental Engineers
Arup
Quantity Surveyors
Tim Gatehouse Associates
Party Wall Surveyors
Roger Rawlinson Associates
Client Representative
Malcolm Reading Associates
Contractor
Day Building Ltd
Landscape Architect
Luszczak Associates
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Photographs by Hélène Binet
The orientation of the site runs almost east-west and is heavily overlooked
and overshadowed on the south and west elevations. The key challenge
of the project was to maintain privacy whilst at the same time optimize
daylight and sunlight penetration into the house.
Our starting point
was to represent the empty volume of the site as a 3D grid of data
points, each with a range of varying attributes (see also Data Structure
Research). Working with Structural Engineers Arup, a detailed environmental analysis
for each individual point was carried out, producing a database of solar and
daylight conditions throughout the year. In addition, weather patterns specific
to London were incorporated and the resulting environmental data were analysed
using special database mining software. Alongside the client’s preferences
and lifestyle, this formed the basis of the design process.
As a result, the section
became inverted, placing the bedrooms on the ground floor and the living spaces
on the first floor. Terraces and gardens create internal
courtyard volumes into which the surrounding spaces face. The inward looking
nature of the site in conjunction with the inverted section led to the development
of a completely glazed roof which functions as an environmental moderator,
filtering sunlight and daylight through layers of transparency and
opacity.
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Blueprint Portfolio
Section
by David Taylor
Blueprint, February 2006
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This comes very
close to
intution-free architecture
by Sutherland Layall
Architects Journal, 12 December 2005
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Full Metal Jacket
by Jay Merrick
Independent, 23 November 2005
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