2015 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Villa Close
Four gabled pavilions are positioned to create two outdoor living courtyards – one sheltered from the easterly and the other from the nor’west wind. The modest exterior disguises a thoroughly sophisticated and generously scaled house. The white-painted, cedar-clad forms have a spare simplicity which suggests a Scandinavian influence, but which also refers to Canterbury’s colonial and modernist residential heritage. Each pavilion is linked by a glazed walkway, synthesizing the home’s requirements for light, privacy, outlook and ventilation, and providing an eventful journey through the house. The result is a relaxed and comfortable house that is well planned and detailed.
- Practice
- Thom Craig Architects Ltd
- Category
- Residential Architecture - Houses
- Location
- Canterbury
