THE PINES
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Full design services (LP 1-8), 6 months construction time, completed 2013
West Malling, Kent UK
150m² living area, 100.000,00 £
1890s cottage renovation and addition
The Pines is a small renovation and extension to an old 1890’s Victorian ragstone cottage in Kent, England. It had been extended twice before (in 1980 and again in 2000) and was in need for an upgrade. Its interior configuration of small rooms and the bad state of its prior additions no longer provided a comfortable living standard for the recently retired owners.
Our proposal maximises the very tight budget by limiting the new extension to only 18m² and totally renovating the interior spaces. The new extension and the existing addition are uniformly clad with a vertical timber façade that makes them read as a single volume.
The vertical black Larch timber simultaneously complements as well as contrasts with the old ragstone wall of the original Victorian house. It references the typical black stained barns of the surrounding Kent farms. The new entrance with a folded steel porch was cut through the ragstone wall.
