smallprojects

safari roof house

two storey bungalow.

The safari roof house was
named after the configuration
of a roof used in the Series-
type Land Rovers, one made of
aluminium sheet and raised off
the body of the vehicle - the
general idea being that of cross-
ventilation and common sense
to replace synthetic insulation
in the roof of the vehicle. For
the house, the safari roof took
form as a pure sunbreak of
corrugated bituminous sheet,

The house is gathered around
the tree-filled courtyard of a
cooling sink. its precast cement
vent block elevations facing
west and large glazed openings
east for morning sun, With its
surfaces conceived and made to
evidence age as an integral part
of its architecture, the house
marked an early attempt in a
search for aesthetics perhaps
more appropriate to a tropical
monsoon paradigm.

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