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Sunken House

Sunken House
© Ed Reeve

SUNKEN HOUSE

Adjaye Associates

ARCHITECTS
Adjaye Associates

LOCATION
United Kingdom

CATEGORY
Houses

PROJECT YEAR
2007

PHOTOGRAPHS
Ed Reeve

Text description provided by architect.

A three storey house in conservation area of De Beauvoir town in Hackney.

Sunken House
© Ed Reeve
Sunken House
© Ed Reeve
Sunken House
© Ed Reeve

The site has been excavated to basement level creating a sunken patio on which the house a partly prefabricated solid timber structure is placed.

One enters the house at street level via parts of the lower ground floor roof which also provide off street car parking.

Sunken House
© Ed Reeve
Sunken House
© Ed Reeve

All facades of the house as well as vertical and horizontal surfaces of the concrete patio are clad in timber rainscreen creating the impression of a continuous surface that embraces the enclosed and open spaces.

The loadbearing structure of the house consists of large section engineered timber panels which have been manufactured off-site therby limiting the on-site construction programme to approximately one week.


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