smallprojects

dogconcrete house

three storey bungalow.

Originally intended as a house
of sharp lines and clean finishes,
a sad comedy of errors left the
project with a concrete structure
so badly formed, an entirely new
concept for its being had to be
figured out. And the dogconcrete
house was born.

To effect savings precipitated by
construction inaccuracy, the idea
of leaving exterior walls without
render began the narrative of
dogconcrete: the offending casts
and selected walls became a raw
shell which cocooned the glazed
surfaces and painted walls of its
public face. The house relies on
the paradigm of shock contrast
to have unforgivable contracting
work for aesthetics: working
with unfinish as hip, and ugly as
character-filled, the simply awful
ceiling slabs and butt-ugly outer
wall of the house were a stab at
finding beauty in the beast.

context

bedframe

steel entry mat

gardenshell house

system shelves

slat door

monsoon mailbox

louvrebox house

commentary

gardenwall offices

timberblind door

a/c jacket

middleearth door

lightwell house

posttensioned stair

dining table #3

biography

gardenshade shed

onion valet

britishindia offices

archiebunker chair

folding gate

bathshelf #2

bibliography

safari roof house

timber table

brickwall house

dishrack

autopsy table

folded stair

photography

contact

boardformed pool

ventblock house

steeltable

pittsburgh desk

dogconcrete house

kitchenjockey

wallpantry

bricklite house

poolplinths

gardengate

black and white house

cantilevered gate

mule system workstation

bathvalet

sibu pavilion

scrapwood pool

concretecarpet stair

fire stairfence

loftoffice

perforated bench

radiator railing

pivotgate

boardformed house

steel & white bath

brickroom

forestgrove

barnstorm house

dropbench

gnarly house

Kvadrat chaise

stacked club

mountain pool

greensplice house

threshold house

gainer mailbox