sailcloth house
Located within the Town Centre Conservation Area of the historic market town of Bridport, on Dorset's Jurassic Coast, this project replaces an empty brownfield site with a new very low energy timber framed house with 2 additional flats.
The brief for the project was to provide a new family home for a retired couple who are committed to low impact, sustainable living, as well as two self contained flats on the same site.
Our design response is a courtyard house which redefines the historic frontage to the site with a sensitive contemporary design, and to the rear a take on a modernist block with a fantastic roof garden.
The project was been designed to be built from a pre-fabricated timber frame, and uses ecological materials throughout - modern lime render, with UK timber cladding to the ground floor courtyard areas.
Faceted zinc dormers reinterpret historic features along the same street lending the house a quietly contemporary aesthetic.
