Beach House

Proposals for a new structure to replace a dilapidated house on a site facing the sea at Sand Bay near Weston-super-Mare.

Views over the Bristol Channel are spectacular, especially from higher levels.

The client is keen to enjoy the outlook to a maximum, so living space is arranged on the top floor with a vaulted roof over. At the centre is a large roof lantern that also serves to drop light into a central staircase leading down to bedrooms.

The house is revealed to view through incisions in the land, as this massing study demonstrates.

Garden Room

This preliminary visualisation explores proposals to take down a rear kitchen extension (with a pitched roof and small windows) to replace with a new, wider structure with large windows and a roof lantern.

Walls would be constructed in timber frame with a rendered finish to keep construction thicknesses to a minimum. New windows and French doors would be powder coated aluminium.

Community Hub

The new Llanedeyrn community hub extension is settling in as a valuable local resource with the library and cafe on the entrance level both well used. South Wales Police occupy the first floor (I'm assured they take no interest in enforcing library fines).

The outdoor seating area, stepping down from road level was a bit wet on the day of our visit, but later in the year it could provide additional social meeting space.

The red railings are formed with laser cut panels designed by JIA, set between steel posts.