ARCHITECT'S VIEW

摘要

This semi-underground home is unorthodox, challenging what it means to design a contemporary domestic space close to the city centre. Located on a backland site behind rows of Victorian terraced houses, Covert House was subject to restrictive conservation-area planning conditions that limited it to a single-storey height. As a result DSDH A decided to partially lower the structure within its garden plot. The exterior appears as a low-rise, lightweight architectural element clad in white render and with chamfered reveals to the openings, which camouflage the house with its verdant surrounding. By contrast, the interior presents itself as a solid volume whose exposed concrete surfaces are mostly left raw and unfinished.