JOSEPH PAGET
ARCHITECT
ARCHITECT
Client: Private
Location: Dorset
Status: Construction
A multi-use pavilion for utility, shelter and outdoor cooking, combined with the ground floor remodelling of a 1930’s detached house.
At Ravine Road a simple structure has been tailored to meet the client’s brief, serving a set of specific functions - no more and no less.
Combined with a need for storage and privacy, this small building was designed to serve a number purposes - a pavilion was required to create a place for shelter, outdoor cooking and showering down after trips to the nearby beach.
When viewed in plan, the building is a robust and self-supporting capital ‘I’. Niches of just under a metre on either side of the central spine wall provide lateral stability to the structure, with neat and tidy bin storage on the boundary side, and spaces for showering and cooking facing the house and garden. Water from the shower is directed towards the garden, irrigating a new planter before returning to the soil beneath.
The level threshold and new double-doors to the open-plan kitchen and living space are covered by exposed rafters and patent glazing, providing shelter and privacy for year-round use. The canopy and glazing above is supported by a single round post and decorated with painted timber slats.
Simple white porcelain tiles are the proposed finish as a nod to the client’s connection to Scandinavia and the project’s main visual inspiration - the Arne Jacobsen designed changing rooms at Klampenborg Beach, Denmark. The resultant building is distinctly modernist and acts as a visual complement to the original 1930’s house.