The Hide

Residential | London The Hide is a self-contained structure in an unusual setting. The client wanted a small multi-purpose building that could function as an office, guest-suite or media room, or simply a space apart from the main house, from which it is hidden. Nestling in an area created by a naturalistic set of grottoes created in the 1930s, the structure sits well below the level of the house on this cascading plot. We rejected the idea of a jarringly rectilinear volume, and used a palette of charred larch, glass, oxidized copper and plywood to create a playful folly distinct from its odd surroundings, but attuned in its own idiosyncrasies.