However the cottage designed by Matter did have a character that they wished to keep and enhance, while doing so reconnecting with the large flat corner site. Cars were a low priority, bikes being the preferred transportation method. Photography by Simon Devitt.
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The site was full of old structures such as sheds, retaining walls, and badly placed oak trees. There were also potential drainage and flooding items to address.
The cottage was floating in the middle of the site with little connection to the land or the streetscape. We proposed to sew in the additions to each end of the structure, extruding the internal spaces into the landscape and beyond.
The internal areas of the cottage were massaged and opened up, ...