Johnson Naylor and MS-DA create Dungeness holiday home on site of radar station
Two dilapidated sheds built in 1961 on the shingle beach of Dungeness in Kent have been replaced with a cosy holiday home by London studios MS-DA and Johnson Naylor.
The corrugated metal structure with its interlocking pitched roofs replaces a pair of sheds that were built in the 1960s to test radar equipment. The project brief was to create a home for two that maintained a link with the building's original history.
Based on the form of the original sheds rotated through 90 degrees, the new prefabricated structure forms a 7.5-square-metre holiday home.
The design, which has been shortlisted for a Dezeen Award in the Hotel and short stay interior category, features an industrial corrugated zinc sheet exterior and a light and calm interior with pale wood panelling and large windows that frame the surrounding shingle landscape.
"The industrial exterior is intentionally practical ? corrugated zinc sheet was often used by the fishing families on Dungeness to construct storage shed or winch housings on the East beach," Fiona Naylor, co-founder of Johnson Naylor, told Dezeen.
"The interior by contrast we wanted to be more gentle, natural and calm ? a sanctuary."
The white stained roof is part of the prefabricated timber structure that was made in Switzerland. The stain was applied prior to shipping. The vertical walls are either a pale bone-white stained oak or a soft purple-grey.
"Bone and purple are part of the landscape of Dungeness ? indigenous flow...
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