LRLP House, 51N4E
I've been thinking about the givens of my chosen site, the Russell Terrace Wedge, and how I might be able to use the restraints of the site as antithetical qualities: public/private, open/closed, light/dark, hard/soft, large/small, exposed/sheltered, the list could go on... to trigger starting points in the design process.
I know this intervention isn't typically functioning as someone's home but the instant I saw it I was intrigued. Such a simple gesture bounded by the restraints of the site. Some words from the architects and eye-candy...
The site of intervention seems awkward at first sight: triangular in form, it is confined on two sides by three-storey high, blind facades. Taking this 3 dimensional ‘Rorsachtest’ as a starting point, its symmetry and confinement are both intensified and annulled by one single intervention: a DIN-format plane bent to fit in. The result, a garden pavilion-and-cave, marries intimacy and a generous garden view. Combined with strategic interventions in house and garden, the scale of the existing is freed up. Like a new wind blowing through the property.
