small projects

bricklite house

three storey bungalow.

The brief for the bricklite house
originally saw request for the
warmth seen in the BritishIndia
corporate warehouse. With the
clear weightiness of overburned
brick and its disparity to site
and scale, the house began its
journey in cheap pink brick
instead. Walls were located only
where absolutely required, and
the house became one on a diet
so to speak - a bricklite house.

A tall courtyard gave the house
a center and construction-grade
brick side walls made for privacy
from neighbours adjacent. All
else was glass-faced within and
to views of the city out front.
Space requirements, extensive
as they were, had rooms on
equal diet of area with master
bedroom as exception, while
shared spaces of living and
dining had a touch more space,
if still only designed to internal
widths of a mere twelve feet.