Sunderlands Bungalow
Program: Residential Refurbishment
Location: Sawston, Cambridge
Area: 1,600 ft2
Status: Completed, 2021 Client: Confidential
Builder: Gabor Romsics
Photo Credit: David Valinsky
Partner in Charge: Darius Woo
Sunderlands Bungalow is a residential refurbishment for a young university researcher who purchased her first home in Sawston, Cambridge.
We
were tasked to reimagine and revitalize a four-bedroom property that had been
extended in an ad hoc manner by multiple owners over time, and was in desperate
need for an overarching spatial strategy. We began by studying the existing
floorplan carefully, and asked ourselves - what is the smallest possible move
that we can make to achieve the biggest possible transformation? Our strategy
was rather simple - to keep work and cost to their absolute minimal, we largely
kept the existing floorplan the same but instead strategically inserted a
series of sculptural, deep skylights across the entire roofscape. By doing so,
we were able to funnel natural lighting efficiently and effectively into an
otherwise very deep and unusable floorplan.
Original conditions:
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