What is the ‘big (IDEA)’ behind this project?
The partial demolition and upgrade of an existing Victorian worker’s cottage and provision of a contemporary addition. Inspired by Geoffrey Bawa’s courtyard houses, the layout involves a series of figure-ground relationships with two central courtyards mediating three built elements. A central mirrored courtyard acts as a powerful interstitial space and a metaphorical bridge of history between the front and rear dwellings. Continuity of material and colour is integral to the sense of flow and movement, blurring notions of interior and exterior. Colour coding and variation, with the infusion of wild card colours, both distinguish and combine languages of two periods.
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