small projects

brickwall house

semi detached house renovation.

The brickwall house was a further
experiment in common clay brick,
reconfiguring street boundaries
and courtyards and bringing
definition to the asian show wet
kitchen.

The existing clay tiled roof was
maintained and extended in a
cantilever over the broad face of
the front entry wall; reference
made to the long blade thin
porches of village workshops in
malaysia.

At the head of a main courtyard
is an open asian kitchen, located
as a comment on the traditionally
marginalized local wet kitchen,
essential but effectively hidden
from view. Emotively, the design
restores the act of cooking to its
domestic and soul centre.