Robert Dye Associates building - photo from 2006:
Photo from Robert Dye Associates 100107
'stealth house' project
Location: Camberwell, London
Architects: Robert Dye Associates
Tel: +44 (0)20 7267 9388
Text from Robert Dye Associates 100107:
Stealth House, London, UK
‘Stealth House’ is a radical reworking of a 1950’s bomb-site
in-fill house, that reconfigures and expands the original from two to
five bedrooms, and repairs the disruption of the streetscape where the
post-war construction failed.
Retaining and recycling masonry remnants, a new volume is framed up in
timber and then wrapped in two folded ‘cloaks’, one in horizontal
black timber, one in horizontal/sloped grey-green mineralised roofing-felt.
Retaining a few masonry remnants, a new timber-framed volume is wrapped
in two folded ‘cloaks’.
The horizontal black timber increases the volume, mediates between the
existing neighbours and relates the interior to the exterior of the house.
The grey-green cloak forms external roof space, referencing the historic
roofscape of the terrace. The client’s brief was to create a modern
four/five bedroom house that he could finance and build himself, developed
into a modern intervention on this site and led to the eventual substantial
demolition of the original pitched roof house.
Southwark’s Planning Department were supportive of a modern intervention
and granted unconditional approval of the scheme. The project was produced
as an architect-assisted self-build. Whilst the design ethos was orchestrated
on site, allowing the realisation of the detail to be executed as a dialogue
between the architects Robert Dye and Jason Coleman, the client and a
highly skilled builder.
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