BUILDING STUDY COVERT HOUSE DSDHA

摘要

Deborah Saunt and David Hills of DSDHA set out to design their home as a testbed for their ideas on sustainability. Their experiments-carried out under restrictive Conservation Area planning conditions-resulted in an unorthodox, semi-underground house that challenges what it means to design a contemporary domestic space. The two-storey house is a box-like form of two colliding white cubes, entirely shielded from street view, set behind aterrace-lined residential blockin Clapham, south London. Planning constraints limited the house to a single-storey height, so DSDHA decided to partially lower the structure within its garden plot. The pavilion-like exterior belies a spacious interior, resulting from generous ceiling heights and an open-plan ground floor that distributes the kitchen as well as the dining and living room areas. A lower floor is accessed via a white concrete stair and is divided into smaller private bedroom and bathroom spaces, which can all be entered off an informal living area.