small projects

dogconcrete house

three storey bungalow.

Originally intended as a house
of sharp lines and clean finishes,
a sad comedy of errors left the
project with a concrete structure
so badly formed, an entirely new
concept for its being had to be
figured out. And the dogconcrete
house was born.

To effect savings precipitated by
construction inaccuracy, the idea
of leaving exterior walls without
render began the narrative of
dogconcrete: the offending casts
and selected walls became a raw
shell which cocooned the glazed
surfaces and painted walls of its
public face. The house relies on
the paradigm of shock contrast
to have unforgivable contracting
work for aesthetics: working
with unfinish as hip, and ugly as
character-filled, the simply awful
ceiling slabs and butt-ugly outer
wall of the house were a stab at
finding beauty in the beast.