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KENSINGTON HOUSE
for Private Client
2010
for Private Client
2010
The house is divided into two linear “pavilions” connected via a glazed “breezeway”. The southern pavilion, accommodates all of the family’s living functions (including bedrooms) and protrudes beyond a shorter formal living room pavilion to capture the northern sun and orient the house towards a north facing amphitheatre-like courtyard.
Vertical concrete blades shade these glazed elevations and serve to defend from the aggressive and acute angle of the sun in the early mornings and late afternoons. Timber elements (doors and wall panelling) complement these elevations to provide a warm protected under-lining to the otherwise austere and temple like character.
Other external spaces alternate in a chequerboard arrangement around the line of circulation that disects the house to provide a variety of landscaped external rooms of varying characters for different occassions.
The architectural language for the prominent western (street) and eastern (garden) facades has been developed to provide a degree of privacy but axial transparency from the house to its protected gardens at the front and rear.
The architectural language for the prominent western (street) and eastern (garden) facades has been developed to provide a degree of privacy but axial transparency from the house to its protected gardens at the front and rear.
