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Red Bridge House

Red Bridge House

Eastbourne, United Kingdom

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Red Bridge House

Eastbourne, United Kingdom

Project of the Day on Mar 20, 2014

Project Featured on Mar 20, 2014

Firm

Smerin Architects

Type

Residential › Private House

YEAR

2013

SIZE

0 sqft - 1000 sqft

In an area of ancient woodland bordering Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, this new build house for a private client is set into a hillside overlooking a stream and the Wealden farmland beyond. The home is arranged over three levels. The main living spaces, accessed via a folded steel plate bridge, occupy the middle floor and lead out to a generous veranda hung from and sheltered by the overhanging roof. Solid oak stairs, machined from timber from the woods and cantilevered from the supporting concrete walls, lead either up to the bedroom floor or down to a strip of utility spaces and a swimming pool room with a sliding glass wall that opens up to the adjoining covered terrace and surrounding meadow.
Internally, in situ concrete walls and precast concrete floors are honestly expressed while externally glazed areas are set within timber-clad elevations on three sides. The fourth side, overlooking the entrance driveway, is clad in Corten steel panels, the oxidized surface of which echoes the autumnal hue of the surrounding trees and adjacent timber cladding. Although clearly contemporary, this palette of materials and the pared back aesthetic used also recalls the honest quality of the local agricultural buildings, making the new house a distinctive but appropriate addition to the rural landscape.