Aldeburgh House, Suffolk Home, David Walker Architects, Modern English Property Photos
Aldeburgh House, Suffolk
1 June 2022
Design: David Walker Architects
Location: Suffolk, south east England, UK

Photos by Tim Soar
Aldeburgh House in Suffolk is one of 17 projects which received a 2022 RIBA East Award.
Aldeburgh House, Suffolk, England
Jury Report
The result of a ten-year self-confessed ?labour of love?, this house has taken on an unpromising 1960s bungalow on the edge of Aldeburgh?s golf course and discovered in its fabric some latent intention and promise waiting to get out.

The outcome had a mesmeric effect on the visiting panel ? each move seems to have distilled the potential of the original house with a precision of effort that makes one think of architectural ju-jitsu. From suburban origins, the result conjures both Nordic modernist traditions as well as something of the architect?s native California, while also amplifying the unique setting of the house itself. The assured and brilliantly executed sequence of domestic internal spaces is mirrored by a set of outside ?rooms? with planted and raised beds as well as a workshop and garden room.
Architectural strategies include working with the original window openings, but replacing the windows, stripping out the cellular interior divisions to make surprisingly generous sequence of spaces pivoting around an entrance courtyard, and removing the original roof hips to simplify the roof form and ?lean it towards the surr...