This extension and re-jig of a listed house is located in the Scottish coastal village of Elie. The old end of terrace town house overlooks the beach and the sea, but its ground floor was a jumble of dark spaces.
Project Name: Sand House
Studio Name: WT Architecture
Project size: 70 m2
Site size: 800 m2
Project Budget: $200000
Completion date: 2018
Building levels: 3
Location: Fife, United Kingdom
Photography: Gillian Hayes
The new work involved taking away most of the ground floor structure of the three-storey house, demolishing a 20th century extension, and opening the living spaces up to the long narrow garden. The attractive street-facing side of the building was left untouched.
With the Scottish weather often standing in the way of being outdoors, the extension borrows a bit of garden which it encloses in glass under a simple flat canopy roof. Polished concrete benches push out in to the garden to blur the lines between inside and out.
The middle of the house was opened up to let sunlight splash through to the new kitchen-living space. Meanwhile the front sitting room was remodeled as a library and TV snug.
