BHSF Architekten GmbH

House Peacock

House Peacock
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HOUSE PEACOCK

BHSF Architekten + Studio P

MANUFACTURERS
Hormann, Hark, Kneer-Süd Fenster

LEAD ARCHITECT
Axel Humpert

PHOTOGRAPHS
Bene Redmann

AREA
314 ft²

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Suffolk, United Kingdom

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

House Peacock is located on the outskirts of a small seaside town in Suffolk in a residential area, typically consisting of generous examples of two and three-storey detached houses.

House Peacock
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House Peacock
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With its surrounding dense vegetation the design appears as an inverted hortus conclusus (literally: enclosed garden) which conceals most of what happens inside of it.

Almost all neighbouring dwellings are recessed from the roads, which allows the abundant greenery to become the major lineament of the immediate context.

House Peacock
© Bene Redmann
House Peacock
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The proposed design tries to embrace this quality while corresponding to the owners’ broad space requirements.

In order to not disturb this sensitive equilibrium of greenery and buildings the proposed design distributes the program over three volumes as opposed to one extensive development.

House Peacock
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House Peacock
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House Peacock
© Bene Redmann

The single story compound divides the site into three different areas, the less private driveway that makes the link to the entrance onto the road, the main courtyard as the heart of the arrangement and the “wild” garden in the East of the property.

While the proportion and topography of the site as well as the lush greenery defined the general framework, the owners’ versatile interests and day-to-day requirements called for a contained spatial background as opposed to a design that comes to the fore.


House Peacock
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House Peacock
© Bene Redmann


House Peacock
© Bene Redmann
House Peacock
© Bene Redmann
House Peacock
© Bene Redmann
House Peacock
© Bene Redmann
House Peacock
© Bene Redmann


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