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2020 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner

Terrace House

A clear and considered response to this hill-side site flowed from the architects’ initial concept model. The house rises from the land as an extruded form, with the overlapping roofs serving as the fifth, and most-telling, façade. Viewed from the winding pedestrian approach, the house evokes a sense of familiarity and warmth. Across the threshold, relaxed living spaces lead into a towering spine wall that appears to have grown out of the site. Openings to the courtyard allow a transitional softening into the landscape, and planting has already blurred the line between what has been built and what has been grown.

 
Practice
Sheppard & Rout Architects Ltd and C Nott Architects Ltd
Category
Housing
Location
Canterbury
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