A concrete structure that was built as a bomb-proof fuel pumping station during world war two in Dungeness, England, has been transformed into a holiday home by UK-based architecture studio Johnson Naylor.
Located on the headland of Dungeness in Kent, which is Britain's only desert, the building was built during world war two as a pumping station to send fuel though undersea pipes to France and support the D-Day landings.
The low-lying oblong building has been transformed into a holiday home by Johnson Naylor, which is one of the five projects to be shortlisted in the Dezeen Awards' Best Small Interior category.

Following the war the bomb-proof structure was converted into a small school with the addition of a chapel in the 1950s. It was subsequently used as a community hall and functioned for twenty years as a meeting lodge for the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes who moved to other premises in 2009. Arranged across one floor, the Dungeness holiday home retains much of the original construction such as the a concrete plank ceiling supported with steel beams.
These original features contrast with Johnson Naylor's sleeker new interventions, such as the weathered steel entrance hallway, which is detached from the main building by glass.

The architects regarded the building's original material structure as both an opportunity and a challenge. The 30-centimetre-thick walls are constructed from a poorly poured shuttered concrete while the roof is made from concrete supp...