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The design responds to the site’s former use as an orchard, utilising clean lines to create view corridors that capture vistas in multiple directions. Two blocks sit either side of the main entrance hall to form a carefully composed courtyard filled with native planting and ornamental features.
Each block is angled to widen the courtyard as it approaches the rear garden, creating a greater sense of space and allowing for more natural light to penetrate the interior spaces.
- Location
Chichester, West Sussex - RIBA Stages
0-7 - Project status
Completed - Contractor
RW Armstrong - Photography
© Sophia Voce
The scheme’s materiality is informed by its rural setting, using a carefully formed palette of red brickwork with timber cladding left to weather on the first floor above. A heavy base is formed from the red brickwork and wraps around the dwelling with interspersions of flint to highlight the primary entrance. Horizontal black timber is used on the lower block to provide a subtle visual subservience that reduces the proposal’s massing across the site.
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