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Bawa House in Hove, England
21 Oct 2020
Bawa House, Sussex
Architects: Alter & Company
Location: Hove, Sussex, Southern England, UK
Bawa House

The design of this urban house reinvigorates a 1960’s detached house situated in the hidden corner of an otherwise forgotten street. Inspired by Sri Lanka style architecture where the very essence of making architecture is about balancing building and landscape ? living more in nature.

The design introduces courtyard gardens, veranda’s and streamlined vertical larch fenestration large panels of glass. The proposal places a series of contemporary extensions either side of the building, one glass the other black steel. Turning the staircase and removing the floor above provides better circulation and allows for flow and visual connectivity. The form of the building has been expressed through a refined palette of materials; vertical larch timber battens, black steel, dark grey painted brickwork and large glass panels framed in dark grey metal.
The solution for this building looked towards the flow and use of specific areas of the house. The proposal places two contemporary extensions on either side of the main brick building, one glass, the other black steel a direct counterpart to one another ? whilst the middle building reads as grey brick with large glass insertions. Turning the staircase and removing the floor above provid...