Client: Private
Location: Fairlight, East Sussex
Completion: December 2014
Engineers: Heyne Tillet Steel
Photography: Jack Hobhouse
Informed by the brief for a through-life, sustainable home that
celebrates its hilltop site, Split House is orientated according to the
surrounding 360 degree views: a wildflower valley, the immediate
coast, the neighbouring village of Pett and the headland of
Dungeness. In doing so, the volume of the building is naturally fragmented.
Extending this split geometry into the landscape creates a soft sense of enclosure, allowing for the provision of a private garden without visually breaking from the
neighbouring wildflower meadow.
The house is future proofed for the ageing of its owners, with internal
lift, and a readily subdividable plan to allow for the inclusion of a small
resident carer’s apartment should this be required.
