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Horizontal House Composed of Three Volumes Surrounded by Dense Vegetation

Horizontal House Composed of Three Volumes Surrounded by Dense Vegetation

Peacock residence is a horizontal house located on the outskirts of a small seaside town in Suffolk in a residential area, typically consisting of generous examples of two and three-storey detached houses. With its surrounding dense vegetation the design appears as an inverted hortus conclusus (literally: enclosed garden) which conceals most of what happens inside of it.

A New House Built on the Site of a Former Perfume Factory

The narrow site, bounded on three sides by other buildings, contained a derelict perfume factory. As the client had affection for its industrial charms, we were keen to capture some of that aesthetic, with the expressed roof structure, reeded glass screens, painted brick and black-stained exterior weatherboarding …

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