Coastal House

A coastal house resolved around a steel frame and a long glazed edge, taking the sea on one side and daylight from above.

Project: Practice project at Geoff Fletcher Architects
My role: Design collaborator; project lead through design development and construction
Period: 2022–2024

Night rendering of the house shown as a lit architectural model on a dark plinth, with bare trees across the site and warm light spilling from the interiors. — Design-development rendering, composed as a lit model on the desk.

The house works from two sources of light. On the seaward side a long glazed edge is held open by a steel frame, so the main living spaces meet the water without visible structure in the way. Away from that edge, where a window would only look back at the neighbours, a roof lantern brings daylight down an internal wall instead.

The steel frame is what makes the first move possible, and it set the order of the work: the portal frames and their connections had to be resolved before the linings, glazing and finishes could be committed. The construction photograph is that moment, with the frame up and the edge still open.

I worked on the design as a collaborator within the practice, and led the project through design development and construction. That covered the developed design, the construction documentation, and the site observation that carried it to completion.

Process

Design development
Documentation and consent
Construction observation
Completion

Outputs: Developed design
Construction documentation
Delivered building
Tools: Rhino · Revit · Blender

Construction photograph from inside the house, looking past red primed steel columns and scaffolding to the sea and a large island beyond. — The steel frame during construction, with the glazed edge still open to the sea.

Completed living room looking out through a glazed corner to the sea, with two yellow armchairs at the window and a long linear fireplace set into stone on the left. — The living room on completion, with the glazed corner carrying the view.

Completed interior seating area where a long roof lantern casts sharp rectangles of daylight down a white wall behind two black wire chairs. — Daylight from the roof lantern, cast down the inner wall.

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