A wooden shape rests on a concrete shelf, protruding from the panorama by the sea below. The construction itself is oriented in such a way that it seems to look bodily throughout Poole Harbor, this orientation and perspective presents an area for the client that recreates the tranquility of the other world of being at sea.
The shape of the wood is painted with an overlay of sculptures of louvers and liquid rubber. Black viscous rubber refers to the old approach of asphalt boats to resist water from the wooden hull. Sealed under the rubber, the grid resembles a fishing net and has a diffuse texture throughout the floor of the building. Painted wooden slats and a diamond grid of rubber-painted petonsil shells are placed on the top of the cove, offering an ornamentation that breaks down the unmarried mass of the construction. At the rear, the sloping geometry of the roof is manipulated and decreased in length to result in reduced height.
The customer wanted a space for writing, drawing, printing, pasting – what he calls his “analog activities” – and which presents a visible and climatic link with the port. These analog activities, together with the limitations of hard websites, also drove the development and materiality of the design, with the sticky aspect of the construction being the final result of an ambition to brighten up the construction of houses. First a concrete base transformed into forging on the sloping cliff, respecting the SSSI surroundings of Poole Harbor. Then, the CNC-reduce plywood tapes had been synthesized off the website with a tolerance of 1 mm, with proudly displayed engraved element codes. Assembling on the website then became brief and straightforward, with cassette panels screwed collectively in a few days.
Inside, the recycled wooden shuttering boards turn out to be the floor, while the entire entrance door with portal window is recovered from a nearby shipyard. The windows of the steel house with a primary pivot, a horizontal start are used to generate an absolutely flexible and variable ventilation, and are painted in a soft blue to refer to the colored roof tiles of the old adjacent ship hangar and the Category II indexed Boat House.