Nice work. I would love to see the floor plan layout.

I had to look closely at the photos , but it looks like this now has 3 wings , or maybe 3 premises ?

I couldn't work out why the photos from the beach seemed to show a turret on the top , the ones from the street didn't show that , and the windows didn't line up . And then I realised its different parts , on different angles .

While I understand why it was done , I don't know if I would talk up the 'emotional attachment' too much -- taking something existing and adding and changing generally results in some compromises somewhere -- I realise that is offset in this case by the ability to keep part of the building close to the beach , but there's still compromises , so 'emotional attachment' then becomes more an excuse than a positive IMO . . . . . . . .

prefer the original

Yes - in some ways, for some uses its the scale of building I prefer it also. When one examines the wider context the common replacement for that kind of building is boundary to boundary development at the maximum envelope. All outbuildings & resultant fine grained scale is lost. The attempt was made in this project to retain some of the finer grain. Some of that intent was lost in the detail execution over which we had no control, sadly. However the strategy remains broadly successful in retaining an existing building & overlaying a better way of increasing accomodation without blotting out the entire history of the site or vistas across it.

And in regard to retaining emotional ties - I disagree - respectfully. Our longstanding experience is that built fabric of places is important in shared memory. Often this is partly why there is resistance to change. Not entirely of course, but a factor. Further our experience is very positive & specific feedback in a variety of other projects where significant elements of place are retained & re-used (be it built or within the landscape). I agree the example above has imperfection. We always strive for the best; but can't always control every element. In this project such things as cladding selection & colour strategy & landscape edge conditions at the boundary carefully detailed & worked out, as part of the whole scaling strategy, were ignored in the building process. Again - a lesson. If you engage an expert & pay them for their expertise why wouldn't you execute their plan? My old teacher used to say "why buy a dog if you plan to do your own barking?"

And yes: 1 home in 3 parts around a private internal courtyard.

I like it Charles. And I agree fully in emotional attachment. Rob W (former client)

ooh now I want to know where they went rogue!

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