Tag: Design Studio

The Rock Bungalow was designed as a holiday retreat, for a family of four, living overseas.  This bungalow was designed under many restrictions. The client had numerous requirements as well as astrological concerns with regards to orientation and siting of certain spaces, which influenced the form and shape of the building. This made it difficult to use most of the bioclimatic design strategies but managed to incorporate various other ecologically sustainable strategies into the design. The astonishing features of the rocky area of the 2 hectares’ site, left looking like a barren land, after intruders had carted away some of the topsoil in an unauthorized manner, leaving a huge patch of area exposed with cut trenches.  The design attempted to heal the site, by sitting the building exactly in this particular location with the two remaining rock areas, which was considered as the most inspirational natural feature to navigate the design theme.