Sunday Dwelling / Structure Structure
Textual content description offered by the architects. Sunday is a house for bodily and psychological well-being, offering a range of areas the place occupants can all the time discover a place of consolation: social areas and personal areas; beneficiant areas and intimate areas; areas to assemble, and areas to retreat.
Establishing a spectrum of spatial situations on a web site of simply 175m2 is a problem and one which has outlined the DNA of this challenge. The extension has been zoned into three north-south bands, establishing the primary realms: communal, out of doors, and personal. Two east-west bands additional divide every of those realms into two zones: beneficiant and intimate. Chequering the plan on this means provides rise to a spectrum of situations: communal/beneficiant, communal/intimate, out of doors/beneficiant, out of doors/intimate, non-public/beneficiant, and personal/intimate.
These qualities are additional strengthened by the ceiling aircraft: lofty and raked over the beneficiant zones; low and flat over the intimate zones, the place area is contained and bodily. This geometry is steady throughout the size of the extension, with expressed beams, clerestory glazing, and concrete pavers connecting the communal, out of doors, and personal realms in a single gesture. This has the impact of building the courtyard as an out of doors room, steady with the adjoining indoor areas. Colour additional reinforces the conce
pt, with a sunken lounge and sunken bathtub each rendered in heat yellow, connecting them throughout the backyard.
Given the small measurement of the positioning, issues of ‘separation’ and ‘connection’ are key. Breeze-block partitions demarcate the varied zones of the home, but allow gentle, breeze, and glimpse views. Equally, north-facing clerestory home windows allow plentiful gentle whereas their obscure glazing conceals views of the neighboring two-storey home that may in any other case loom over the property.
Accessing the bed room requires strolling throughout the open-air courtyard, offering a deliberate retreat from the home – a invaluable gesture on a web site the place separation of zones is difficult. On this means, retiring for the night is a extra thought-about ritual. Equally, occupants are extra acutely aware of the climate, which performs a task within the day by day expertise of residence life: moist climate requires a fast sprint throughout the courtyard; heat climate permits the doorways to be thrown open, connecting the 2 halves of the home. Whereas this association wouldn’t go well with everybody, the choice to forego a connecting hallway on a web site of this measurement is massively useful, maximizing pure gentle, air flow, and backyard side for either side of the home.
Materially, pure textures have been delivered to the fore, with minimal floor remedies permitting the home to develop its personal patina with time. Our shoppers have an curiosity within the works of Geoffrey Bawa and one was raised in a Paul Sofa home, establishing in them an affinity for sturdy supplies, muted palettes, clear geometries, and areas sculpted by gentle. And but, our shoppers even have a love of yellow, impressed by Luis Barragan’s daring colours. Each influences have been formative within the design of our shopper’s new residence.
