Rising to the challenge

摘要

In many ways the house designed by Baca Architects and Techniker is ordinary -triumphantly ordinary. It's an elegant ordinary house with a pitched roof structure and concrete basement. The industrial weatherscreen skin of zinc shingles wraps the glazed facade to fully exploit the magnificent views of the River Thames. It is the views that hold the secret to what makes this house so special and it is what lies beneath this house that makes it extraordinary - it is the UK's first amphibious house.