small projects

gardenshell house

two storey bungalow.

The gardenshell house began
a fresh series of houses which
attempt to maximise the trades
and materials of local industry
and minimise cost through
methods of unfinish: an early
beginning to an aesthetic of the
underconstructed.

With walls of pervious cement
brick dimensioned for passive
cooling, the occlusion of water
during the monsoons, and the
sibilant hiss of an elevated
concrete transit line running
the rear boundary of the site,
the gardenshell house wraps its
private inner and transparent
spaces with an enclosure of
unplastered brick set into the
frame of a similarly unfinished
concrete structure - a raw shell
designed to receive protection
from the elements and a finish
of natural growth with each
passing year.