A welcome neighbour

摘要

The scheme called for a Cor-ten steel-clad courtyard house on an unusual triangular end-of-terrace plot in St Werburghs, Bristol, for a private client. The brief was to develop a new two-bedroom home on the ground floor for the client to live in, with a separate first-floor space for guests, and a small courtyard and roof terrace overlooking the adjacent park. Screened by the redoubt of a heavily graffiti-ed existing boundary wall, this new 80m~2 timber frame house in the Bristol neighbourhood of St Werburgh's peers above its parapet, clad in a rusting armour of Cor-ten steel. Even on a dreary day the camouflage of its geometric-cut upper storey echoes the warm tones - red brick embellished with Bath stone detailing-of a short, bay-fronted Victorian terrace opposite, just along from a corner shop that stocks fairtrade organic produce.